Welcome to Calva, an integrated REPL powered environment for enjoyable and productive Clojure and ClojureScript in Visual Studio Code. It includes inline code evaluation, Paredit, a Clojure formatter, a test runner, Clojure syntax highlighting, and more. Much of the power is harvested from the produce of The Orchard.
Calva is short for Calvados, a liquid gifted to humanity from God. It is distilled from Cider.
From The Tao of Calva:
Calva's raison d´être is to provide Visual Studio Code users with an easy to use and productive environment for Clojure and ClojureScript development.
From the same page you can also learn that we want Calva to be a good choice for VS Code users asking:
How do I use my favorite code editor for Clojure development?
We also hope that Calva will contribute to making it easier to pick up Clojure as a new language.
Go to the documentation to find info on how to connect Calva to your project and start evaluating code and such. The documentation is built from the same repository as Calva. So if you know about workarounds or gotchas or anything that is good to know about when using Calva, please edit the appropriate page (or create a new page) by PR.
- Syntax highlighting, plus:
- Rainbow parens
- Highlights misplaced brackets
- LISP friendly bracket matching
- Ignore form (
#_) dimming and(comment)form highlighting
- Code formatting and autoindent according to https://github.com/bbatsov/clojure-style-guide
- Structural Editing (via Paredit)
- Linting
- Intellisense
- Go to / Peek at definition
- View docstrings on hover
- View function signatures on hover
- Support for Clojure tools/deps, Leiningen, shadow-cljs, lein-figwheel, and Figwheel Main, and Nashorn repls. (For Boot, only Connect scenarios work, there is no Jack-in yet.)
- Your Custom Connect Sequences, including fully customized CLJS REPLs.
- Switch the CLJS REPL connection between your different CLJS builds at will.
- When editing
cljcfiles, easily choose if REPL commands should go to thecljorcljsREPL by clicking thecljc/clj[s]indicator in the status bar. - And more
Demo: Peek at definitions, etcetera:
Demo: switch between clj and cljs repl sessions for cljc files:
I'm glad you are reading this section! There are many ways and you are welcome to combine them at will. Be creative 😄:
- Give us feedback.
- Via #calva-dev at the Clojurians Slack.
- Via filing issues.
- Fix issues. PRs welcome! Calva is built using a combination of TypeScript and ClojureScript. The ClojureScript part uses the shadow-cljs toolchain. See the How to Contribute page on the wiki for instructions on how to hack on Calva. TL;DR It is super easy to get started!
- Fix typos. In the UI and in the docs. It might seem like a small enough thing to not bother about it, but really, typos get in the way of comprehension. Typos are bad, uhm?
- Become a GitHub sponsor. Read on.
A considerable amount of time, creativity, energy, worries, sweat, and tears (well, no tears, but anyway 😄), is being spent on Calva. Please consider sponsoring us to show us that extra level of appreciation. Here are the ways you can do it:
Yeah, it's the only way right now, hopefully the other team members are setting up sponsoring as well.
These people are helping to keep Calva maintained and improved by sponsoring with their hard earned money. It is fantastic. Thank you!
Many people have contributed to Calva. Here are the ones who have engaged in the project as such.
- Matt Seddon
- Pedro Girardi
- Stian Sivertsen (Creator of Visual:Clojure)
We hope you will find good use for Calva. Please let us know what you think. PRs welcome, file an issue or chat us up in the #calva-dev channel in the Clojurians Slack.