Can't get to "Introduction" from index.clj #14
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Hey @khinsen ! The problem here is that in the version of Clerk I am using, the links don't work in local mode. To navigate, you have to either:
I think this is fixed in a later version of Clerk and I plan on upgrading to remove this confusing experience! Re: the scary output, I realized that I can make this better by pre-compiling a single JS bundle and setting the project to use that. That will save startup time and remove many dependencies like I'm excited for your comments. I've got more ease-of-use changes coming down the pipeline for defining animations, so that that experience feels more like declaring the plots in this essay. |
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Thanks @sritchie, that works much better! I now get the right page, and it's mostly displayed correctly, with the exception of the first visualization: I appreciate your efforts on ease of use. That's the weak spot of the Clojure ecosystem, where every part comes with a detailed manual that supposes you are already familiar with much of the rest of the ecosystem. More abstractly, I find the tooling complexity a bit worrying from the scientist's perspective. All those messages in my terminal convey the overall message that there are tons of dependencies whose reliability and stability I cannot judge. Do I really want to rely on such a huge pile of unfamiliar code? Personally, I trust the Clojure community enough to keep this working, but I have been loosely in contact with it for many years. |
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I've had the same issue and worked around it by typing http://localhost:7777/essays/reality/introduction.md into the address bar, which might help some folks for a one click fix. @sritchie - I was wondering about the relative merits of providing a docker container for the runtime and mounting the code as a volume so you can keep your edits on your local disk. Might get closer to managing deps with more stability and providing a one command startup experience. I had some issues (which I managed to overcome) because I already had Babashka but it was out of date. |
Following your instructions, I end up typing "bb clerk-watch", which (after five minutes, tons of downloads, and a couple of medium-scary warnings and error messages) opens a browser tab showing the rendered version of
index.clj. So far - great!But when I click on "Introduction", the URL changes to
localhost:7777/essays/reality/introduction, but the contents are again those ofindex.clj. I can repeat this game and add ever more instances ofessays/reality/in the URL, but I never get the rendered introduction. But there are no more error message in the shell, once the browser tab is opened.For completeness, here is the full output of
bb clerk-watch:The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: