clojure-cli-config VS athens

Programming Clojure 3rd edition does have some minimal coverage of the CLI but it just barely made it to publication and a lot has been added since. You might find the CLI guide (https://clojure.org/guides/deps_and_cli) and CLI reference (https://clojure.org/reference/deps_and_cli) to be helpful for some questions. The Practicalli guide (https://practical.li/clojure/) has a number of good pages and resources on repl, tools, and use.

Yeah this is grim.

There is https://github.com/practicalli/clojure-deps-edn which solves this but it’s not linked to from any official docs which seems a miss to me. As well as the config and full documentation, it also comes with a video walking you through a demo of all the features.

I was lost when I moved to deps from lein, but just forking and cloning https://github.com/practicalli/clojure-deps-edn as $HOME/.clojure solved the problem - this base deps.edn contained all the aliases I needed - creating a new project, searching and adding dependencies, hooking up data inspectors like portal or reveal, testing, code coverage, benchmarking, building uberjar etc. Moving to deps also introduced me to polylith [1], which has been very useful for building large multi-component projects

[1] https://polylith.gitbook.io/polylith/

When I'm looking for tooling related stuff I do always check practical.li (https://practical.li/clojure/) since it probably has a good, if terse, description and mostly has links to the good documentation (or at least the best available).

4. You need build tooling and it seemed the choices were lein (easy user experience but not “blessed” future direction? - not sure about what i’m saying here but it’s the understanding i formed). Tools.deps is the blessed approach but designed to customise the heck out of it - problematic for a beginner like me! Thankfully you can park the customisation for later and just get started with a well laid out starter https://github.com/practicalli/clojure-deps-edn - there’s even a video walks you through its features, all the inspectors and visualisers are nice to know about but not needed yet on a beginner journey

You might be interested in how in Athens we modelled properties as named (map-like) block relationships: https://github.com/athensresearch/athens/blob/main/doc/adr/0026-properties.md

https://github.com/athensresearch/athens

The underlying in memory datalog style database that can run in the browser that enables these apps

There is a docker compose file on there github that made things easy to get started. Has a web interface and was very quick. You could have multiple users as well.

I need a guide how to install athens for installing previously downloaded go packages. I have created a binary file from athens https://github.com/athensresearch/athens and configure .toml with path to local storage, also change the storage parameter to [disk

Athens

Get the docker compose manager. Create a new stack and put in the docker Compose file from Athens. Change to the ports and volumes you want and you are good to go.

Has anyone successfully running a selfhosted version of Athens from athensreseach. There is a demo. They even have a document page with some help for docker.