[james-mcelwain]

I'm not super familiar -- what editor integrations does create-react-app provide? It seems like it's just a project template like Luminus for Clojure.

Tooling is definitely important, so I don't want to downplay friction here, just curious about what other ecosystems do better.

[Royalaid]

Mostly that there is an interplay between the config that gets spit out by CRA and the editors that consume it, I don't need to give intellij the run config for the 400th time, it's just there by default. I click run and it runs.

An exercise for you to try that might illustrate it. Setup create-react-app and get hello world up and running. Now do the same with Clojurescript. That should include a way to hot reload and edit because that is often the next steps.

Notice the friction that CLJS still has and the aimlessness of starting from a build script as is suggested on the Clojure site vs getting a functional build in two commands.

I don't want to come across as ungrateful for the hard work that David and Alex and the whole team put in, they are the only reason have dev tools that feel comfortable to me and I can't thank them enough for that, but I just want to point out that friction and difficulty and to try and get people who do understand to put themselves in the shoes of developers who don't and to acknowledge that we as a community can aspire to more.

[Oreb]

I am not familiar with CRE, so I could be missing something, but based on my understanding of what you write, `lein new re-frame hello-world` should do the trick. Do `lein dev` from the project root directory to get the app running with hot reload.