Navigating ClojureScript's Fire Swamps

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Covers concrete ClojureScript failure modes and fixes: manual externs for third‑party JS (about 95–99% of libs), how to write externs and why use externs inference (1.9.456) or cljsoops string-access wrappers instead, quirks for advanced DCE (use goog.define, type booleans, compare strings with identical), module splitting and the heavy module-loader boilerplate, and the experimental NPM deps/foreign-libs flow (React example shrinks 53KB → 32KB, ~40% savings) with required node inputs and externs.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:46Google Closure Library
3. 10:54Three types of inference warnings
4. 22:05Application development is the big winner
5. 29:31Loading Modules in Production

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