Writing Clojure at Runtime with Nightlight
summary
An editor shipped as a library that runs inside your project and serves a browser UI, Nightlight exposes the project’s namespaces directly so it implements code completion in two hours by querying available symbols, provides a built‑in REPL, and supports ClojureScript by loading the app in an iframe. It integrates with Boot or Leiningen, can be hosted as nightcoders.net, and works but can fail if the project won’t start or when dependency/classloader conflicts or certain browsers (Edge/Safari) break the web UI.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction to developer tools
- 1:33Why the web for tools?
- 4:41Paren soup and editing mode
- 7:40Par infer and night code
- 9:40Reimagining code completion
- 12:27Building nightlight
- 15:53Tool integration and boot
- 18:52Night coders and the cloud
- 21:09Bug reporting and philosophy
- 24:24Audience Q&A
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