Clojure Basics: Editor and Tooling Setup

A guide to choosing and setting up a Clojure editor, demonstrating structural editing features and popular plugins.

In this video, I discuss what to look for when choosing a Clojure editor, demo some important features and wrap up by listing some of the more popular editor plugins. Structural editing links: Paredit guide for Emacs: danmidwood.com/content/2014/11/21/animated-paredit.html Parinfer: shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/ Also refer to your editor plugin's documentation for more details. Setup Links: CIDER for Emacs: github.com/clojure-emacs/cider Cursive for IntelliJ IDEA: cursive-ide.com/ Calva for VSCode: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=betterthantomorr… vim-fireplace for Vim: github.com/tpope/vim-fireplace Conjure for Neovim: github.com/Olical/conjure Chlorine for Atom: atom.io/packages/chlorine Atom setup guide: clojureverse.org/t/atom-editor-setup-for-clojure-script-deve… Thread with various dev setups: reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/ht0j85/best_dev_setup_for_cloj… Clojure Community: Where to ask for Help — practicalli.github.io/blog/posts/cloure-community-getting-he… Discuss this video on Reddit: reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/hvq6b4/clojure_basics_editor_a… Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:44 Structural Editing Intro 2:05 Paredit Demo 6:16 Parinfer Demo 8:38 Editor-integrated REPL Intro 9:26 Editor-integrated REPL Demo 11:57 Other helpful editor features 13:43 Linting and clj-kondo Intro 14:39 clj-kondo demo with VSCode 17:38 Choosing an Editor 18:58 Recap and Outro