clj-new VS graalvm-clojure

clj-new library allows you to generate new projects from templates. In contrast to the previous example, this time you suggested adding a new alias globally in ~/.clojure/deps.edn:

These steps aren't unique for the test-lib and you'll need to repeat them again when creating another libraries. Fortunately, there is a project called clj-new that will save you from doing similar work again and again.

My new favourite thing is clj-new. Quoth the readme:

I use Sean Corfield's clj-new project to initialize new Clojure projects. Install it for your environment according the instructions in his README, then run clj -X:new :template app :name kiramclean/test-cli to generate a new Clojure project (but replace kiramclean/test-cli with /).

FYI, https://github.com/seancorfield/clj-new

Using graalvm when possible. More details (finding out if possible for your project) here: https://github.com/clj-easy/graalvm-clojure/tree/master/

I haven't yet, no, but I've just barely gotten started. There's a repo here that tracks compatibility of several Clojure libraries: https://github.com/BrunoBonacci/graalvm-clojure

Even though there's no batteries-included way to manage Clojure projects, the community has put together a lot of great tools and guides the cover all the bases. The community seems to be converging around the official Clojure CLI and associated tooling as the preferred way to manage Clojure projects. It's extremely well designed, like most things Clojure, but, also like most things Clojure, it's very bare-bones. It's not an all-in-one command-line utility you can use to manage your whole project, like the angular or rails CLIs (which I didn't appreciate nearly enough in my former life 😢). You need to configure the Clojure CLI itself for it to be useful, but luckily that's really straightforward to do. What follows are the steps I did to make a new skeleton command-line app in Clojure. It follows the steps from this great guide, but I included the actual commands here because I use the Clojure CLI (clj) instead of lein to run things.