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packages		nbb
	Project
1	Mentions	48
785	Stars	808
0.1%	Growth	0.9%
6.9	Activity	7.8
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
JavaScript	Language	Clojure
-	License	Eclipse Public License 1.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

packages

Posts with mentions or reviews of packages. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

State of Clojure 2022 Results
1 project | /r/Clojure | 4 Jun 2022

As soon as you want npm packages however you need npm, yarn or anything that can create the proper node_modules folder. CLJSJS is not supported (and also partially deprecated anyways, see my blog for reasons why I dropped support) but cljs.main/figwheel.main using npm packages via :target :bundle are in the same boat at that point.

nbb

Posts with mentions or reviews of nbb. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-09.

Embeddable Common Lisp 23.9.9
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Sep 2023

The SCI/babashka clojure interpreter might be a good fit, if you're ok with a lisp.
It's mature and fully sandboxed.
https://github.com/babashka/nbb
create-helix-app: project templates with Helix and more
4 projects | /r/Clojure | 24 Apr 2023

To try it out, run npx create-helix-app in your terminal. It is powered by Nbb, Ink, and Helix itself!
Releasing Longdown: Convert longform markdown files to outline format used by Logseq
4 projects | /r/logseq | 18 Apr 2023

Thanks for building! May also want to share in #extension-news in discord to reach more users. Fwiw, you might be able to write the whole script without the need for compilation with https://github.com/babashka/nbb. You may also be interested in https://github.com/logseq/nbb-logseq as a fair amount of logseq core is scriptable
Administrative Scripting with Julia
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Apr 2023

I wish there was something elaborated for scripts that run on Node. I've been using nbb[1] for scripting, and although it all runs through Node.js, it is fast and quick to prototype scripts. The best part is in CI I can simply `npx nbb path/to/script.cljs`. Things get clunky if I want to use anything about of the Node stdlib though, since then you need the dreaded node_modules folder around.
[1] https://github.com/babashka/nbb
I'm considering moving from Clojure to Common Lisp
2 projects | /r/Clojure | 29 Mar 2023

For clojure I just found for babashka it seems someone natively compiled jsoup with graalvm and exposed (minimal functionality from it) as a babashka pod, or a possibility would be use nbb like babashka for node. But if racket has the libraries you need and you don't need js/jvm ecosystem than I'm sure it'll be great also
Is anyone using Shadow on the backend ?
2 projects | /r/Clojure | 12 Feb 2023

There are some folks using nbb on the backend as well: https://github.com/babashka/nbb, e.g. in AWS Lambdas or via the sitefox framework: https://github.com/chr15m/sitefox. Don't expect stellar performance from nbb since it's interpreted CLJS rather than compiled (as you have with shadow-cljs) but for small scoped projects and fast prototyping it might be ok.
What's the best lisp to js compiler
3 projects | /r/lisp | 24 Nov 2022

https://github.com/babashka/nbb (babashka for nodejs)
nbb: I'm confused how to include dependencies from Clojars
4 projects | /r/Clojure | 16 Oct 2022

I tried reproducing this example from the nbb documentation.
nbb, scripting for Clojure on Node.js, turns 1.0!
1 project | /r/Clojure | 10 Oct 2022
i am so ANGRY with Clojure community
6 projects | /r/Clojure | 30 Sep 2022

If you don't want to deal with the tooling but want to practice the language, have a look at https://github.com/babashka/nbb

What are some alternatives?

When comparing packages and nbb you can also consider the following projects:

playcanvas-cljs-demo - PlayCanvas ClojureScript Demo App

babashka - Native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting

klipse - Klipse is a JavaScript plugin for embedding interactive code snippets in tech blogs.

babashka-sql-pods - Babashka pods for SQL databases

clojure - The Clojure programming language

deps.clj - A faithful port of the clojure CLI bash script to Clojure

dbcore - Generate applications powered by your database.

integrant - simplified integrant

nodashka - Ad-hoc CLJS scripting on Node.js. [Moved to: https://github.com/borkdude/nbb]

nexe - 🎉 create a single executable out of your node.js apps

planck - Stand-alone ClojureScript REPL

interactive - .NET Interactive combines the power of .NET with many other languages to create notebooks, REPLs, and embedded coding experiences. Share code, explore data, write, and learn across your apps in ways you couldn't before.