Reveal – Read Eval Visualize Loop for Clojure

Summary

Overview Reveal is a Clojure-oriented data inspection toolbox that aims to remove the barrier between you and objects in your VM. The goals of Reveal are: to empower you to hold a value in your hand — meaning you can look at it from different angles, pick it apart and analyze different pieces of the data just by pointing at them; to complement REPL-aided development — providing both interactive output panes for the REPL and tools to use at the REPL; to get the most from being in-process — in addition to working with remote processes. There are 2 versions of Reveal: Try it out To try Reveal Free: Start a Reveal Free REPL: clj \ -Sdeps '{:deps {vlaaad/reveal {:mvn/version "1.3.296"}}}' \ -X vlaaad.reveal/repl Evaluate some forms and inspect the results. To try Reveal Pro: Start a Reveal Pro REPL: clj \ -Sdeps '{:deps {dev.vlaaad/reveal-pro {:mvn/version "1.3.388"}}}' \ -X vlaaad.reveal/repl Start a free trial here; Paste the license key from confirmation email into a license input field in the Reveal Pro window; Evaluate some forms and inspect the results. Features Learn Reveal Here you can find useful high-level information about Reveal: Documentation Lower-level guides: I gave 3 talks about Reveal: Other videos about Reveal: I also talked about Reveal on defn podcast (1h30m). Various written setup instructions using Reveal: Practicalli page describes Reveal setup for CLI, nrepl editors, emacs (using cider) and rebel-readline; Calva page describes vscode setup with Calva extension (using both tools-deps and leiningen examples); my blog post describes various Reveal socket REPL setups that talk with remote processes. Closing thoughts If repl is a window to a running program, then Reveal is an open door — and you are welcome to come in. I get a lot of leverage from the ability to inspect any object I see, and I hope you will find Reveal useful too. If you do, please consider supporting my work either by sponsoring the development of the free version or by buying the su...