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94 lines
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## Development
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### Setting up re-frame-trace for development
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You need both the re-frame-trace project _and_ a test project to develop it against. For example, you can use the [todo-mvc](https://github.com/Day8/re-frame/tree/master/examples/todomvc) project.
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- Clone `re-frame-trace` to your machine:
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```
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git clone git@github.com:Day8/re-frame-trace.git
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```
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- Go into the root folder of the test project you're using to develop re-frame-trace with.
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```
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cd /your/project/folder
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```
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- Add re-frame-trace into this test project using the [instructions](README.md#installation) above.
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- Still in the test project, create a folder called `checkouts`, then enter the folder:
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```
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mkdir checkouts
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cd checkouts
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```
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- Create a [relative symlink](https://superuser.com/questions/146231/how-do-i-create-a-relative-symbolic-link-in-linux) from your local re-frame-trace project in the checkouts folder. For example:
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```
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ln -s ../relative/path/to/your/local/re-frame-trace re-frame-trace
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```
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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 the `project.clj` file. If you're having trouble locating the right place to put this, it might help to look to a sample [project.clj](https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/blob/stable/sample.project.clj) for inspiration. For example:
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:cljsbuild {:builds {:client {:source-paths ["checkouts/re-frame-trace/src"]}}}
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```
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- Now run your test project however you usually run it, and re-frame-trace should be in there. \o/
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- Additionally, if modifying the `.less` CSS files, compile the css by running within the re-frame-trace directory:
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lein less auto
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```
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to watch for changes, or one time by running:
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lein less once
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```
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And then any time you want to reload the CSS, you have to **manually save/touch `styles.cljs`**. Figwheel will not do it for you. ([See below](#problems-while-developing-css) for details).
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### Developing CSS
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The styles for the trace panel are defined both inline and in a LESS file. To develop the styles, edit `resources/day8/re_frame/trace/main.less` and run
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lein less auto
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```
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to watch the LESS file and automatically recompile on changes.
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**Don't edit the CSS file `resources/day8/re_frame/trace/main.css` directly**, as it will be overwritten.
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We are using CSS preprocessing because in order to isolate the panel styles, we are namespacing the panel styles with the id `#--re-frame-trace--`.
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#### Problems while developing CSS
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- You must touch or save the `styles.cljs` file to trigger a CSS reload if you're editing `main.less`. This is because `styles.cljs` slurps `main.css` with a macro that happens before Clojurescript compilation, so figwheel isn't aware of the changes.
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- Did you run `lein less auto` or `lein less once` to compile LESS to CSS?
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- Try clearing your browser cache/hard-reloading.
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### Updating the internal version of re-frame used
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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](https://github.com/benedekfazekas/mranderson) to create source dependencies of re-frame.
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```console
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$ lein do clean
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$ lein with-profile mranderson source-deps
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$ cp -r target/srcdeps/mranderson047 src
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```
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### How does re-frame-trace build?? I don't see anything in the project.clj that looks like it will build.
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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.
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### 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?
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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`.
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