Squint: a taste of Clojure for JavaScript devs

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A lightweight workflow shows ClojureScript compiled into a React app using Squint so no JVM or 8MB standalone is required, with an npx react-cljs setup that injects a Vite plugin to run Squint’s compile-string step during build. Demo drops a .cjs file that replaces a JS counter to increment by two, starts a Squint REPL bound to a port, and successfully updates the running app—live edit and REPL integration work end-to-end.

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1. 0:00Introduction to Squint
2. 3:16Mission and ecosystem
3. 9:25Squint core and compiler
4. 12:16Live demo setup
5. 17:53Demo counter increment
6. 20:27REPL driven development
7. 23:38Community and Q&A

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