How to use Calva and Reveal together

Reveal is a "Read Eval Visualize Loop for Clojure". This page describes how to use Reveal in your development setup based on Calva.

When using Leiningen

In your project.clj, add a profile named "reveal":

:profiles {:reveal {:dependencies [[vlaaad/reveal "1.2.185"]]
                    :repl-options {:nrepl-middleware [vlaaad.reveal.nrepl/middleware]}}}

Now when you jack-in using Calva, you enable this profile and Reveal will be started automatically. Please note that Reveal requires Java 8 or higher, and uses JavaFX. Depending on your setup, you may need to make sure it is available.

When using tools.deps

In your project's deps.edn file add a :reveal alias:

:aliases
{:reveal
    {:extra-deps {vlaaad/reveal {:mvn/version "1.2.185"}}
     :main-opts  ["-m" "nrepl.cmdline"
                  "--middleware" "[vlaaad.reveal.nrepl/middleware,cider.nrepl/cider-middleware]"]}}

And then jack-in choosing the Clojure CLI option and then pick the :reveal alias.

If you find the font to small you can add a :jvm-opts key to make it a little bigger:

:aliases
{:reveal
    {:extra-deps {vlaaad/reveal {:mvn/version "1.2.185"}}
     :jvm-opts   ["-Dvlaaad.reveal.prefs={:font-size,17}"]
     :main-opts  ["-m" "nrepl.cmdline"
                  "--middleware" "[vlaaad.reveal.nrepl/middleware,cider.nrepl/cider-middleware]"]}}