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Development
Setting up re-frame-trace for development
You need both the re-frame-trace project and a test project to develop it against. For example, you can use the todo-mvc project.
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Clone
re-frame-trace
to your machine:git clone git@github.com:Day8/re-frame-trace.git
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Go into the root folder of the test project you're using to develop re-frame-trace with.
cd /your/project/folder
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Add re-frame-trace into this test project using the instructions above.
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Still in the test project, create a folder called
checkouts
, then enter the folder:mkdir checkouts cd checkouts
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Create a relative symlink from your local re-frame-trace project in the checkouts folder. For example:
ln -s ../relative/path/to/your/local/re-frame-trace re-frame-trace
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If you're using figwheel in the test project, you need to add the checkouts folder (
checkouts/re-frame-trace/src
) to:cljsbuild :source-paths
in theproject.clj
file. If you're having trouble locating the right place to put this, it might help to look to a sample project.clj for inspiration. For example::cljsbuild {:builds {:client {:source-paths ["checkouts/re-frame-trace/src"]}}}
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re-frame-trace has a debug panel useful when developing it. You can enable it by adding the :closure-define
"day8.re_frame.trace.debug_QMARK_" true
to your compiler settings. -
Now run your test project however you usually run it, and re-frame-trace should be in there. \o/
Developing CSS
The styles for the trace panel are defined both inline and in Garden styles in day8.re-frame.trace.styles
.
We are using CSS preprocessing to isolate the panel styles, by namespacing the panel styles with the id #--re-frame-trace--
.
Problems while developing CSS
- Try clearing your browser cache/hard-reloading.
Updating the internal version of re-frame used
We want to use re-frame, but we don't want to use the re-frame that the host is using, or tracing will get very messy. Instead, we use mranderson to create source dependencies of re-frame and reagent.
$ lein do clean
$ lein with-profile mranderson source-deps
$ cp -r target/srcdeps/mranderson047 src
# Then delete the META-INF directories
How does re-frame-trace build?? I don't see anything in the project.clj that looks like it will build.
When you add a path to the :source-paths of the test project used to develop the trace panel against, figwheel in the test project will know to watch and build it too.
I'm developing against the re-frame todomvc project. Why are changes in my local re-frame repo reflected in the example project? Shouldn't it be pulling from clojars?
The re-frame todomvc depends on the source paths of the re-frame project in the same repo. It does this by adding adding "../../src"
to :source-paths
.