Practicalli Snippets for Clojure LSPλ︎
Custom snippets created by Practicalli
Use practicalli/clojure-lsp-config as the user level configuration or copy the desired snippets to :additional-snippets key in the Clojure LSP configuration (project .lsp/config.edn or user level configuration).
Snippets are defined as a vector of hash-maps
Documentationλ︎
A comment heading to describe the purpose and important information about the current namesapce.
{:name "comment-heading"
:detail "Comment Header"
:snippet
";; ---------------------------------------------------------
;; ${1:Heading summary title}
;;
;; ${2:Brief description}\n;; ---------------------------------------------------------\n\n$0"}
A comment separator for marking logical sections within a namespace, useful for navigating code and identifying opportunities to refactor a namespace into multiple namespaces.
{:name "comment-separator"
:detail "Comment Separator"
:snippet
";; ---------------------------------------------------------\n;; ${1:Section title}\n\n$0"}
A comment section with start and end titles for marking logical sections within a namespace, again for navigation and identifying opportunities to refactor a namespace.
{:name "comment-section"
:detail "Comment Section"
:snippet
";; ---------------------------------------------------------\n;; ${1:Section title}\n\n$0\n\n
;; End of $1\n;; ---------------------------------------------------------\n\n"}
REPL Driven Developmentλ︎
A rich comment block typically used to hold function calls to show how to make use of the important aspects of the current namespace. For example, calls to start, restart, stop functions in a namespace that defines the service life-cycle.
This provides a live executable guide to using the namespace, without being called if the whole namespace is evaluated.
A commented expression is placed before the closing paren to ensure that closing paren is not folded up into the previous line. This makes it easier to add further code to the rich comment block.
{:name "rich-comment"
:detail "Create rich comment"
:snippet
"(comment
$0
#_()) ;; End of rich comment"}
A modified rich comment block with clj-kondo configuration to suppress warnings for duplicate function definition names, supporting alternative function implementations as part of a REPL driven development workflow.
{:name "rich-comment-rdd"
:detail "Create comment block"
:snippet
"#_{:clj-kondo/ignore [:redefined-var]}
(comment
$0
#_()) ;; End of rich comment"}
Wrap an existing form in a rich comment
{:name "wrap-rich-comment"
:detail "Wrap current expression with rich comment form"
:snippet
"(comment
$current-form
$0
#_()) ;; End of rich comment"}
Comment an existing form with the Clojure Comment macro, _#
{:name "wrap-reader-comment"
:detail "Wrap current expression with Comment Reader macro"
:snippet "#_$current-form"}
Hot loading library dependenciesλ︎
Clojure CLI projects can hotload library dependencies into a running Clojure REPL using the tools.deps library. This requires starting a REPL with the clojure.tools.deps.alpha library as a dependency which can be done by including the :lib/hotload alias from practicalli/clojure-deps-edn. Note this library is alpha and the API could change in future.
Create a rich comment block that requires the clojure.tools.deps.alpha namespace and an add-libs expression to hotload one or more libraries in a hash-map. Tab stops with placeholders are included for adding the first library to hotload.
{:name "rich-comment-hotload"
:detail "Rich comment library hotload"
:snippet
"#_{:clj-kondo/ignore [:redefined-var]}
(comment
;; Add-lib library for hot-loading
(require '[clojure.tools.deps.alpha.repl :refer [add-libs]])
(add-libs '{${1:domain/library-name} {:mvn/version \"${2:1.0.0}\"}$3})
$0
#_()) ;; End of rich comment block"}
Core functionsλ︎
Create a public var using a def form with a doc-string, with placeholders for name and value.
Create a private var using a def form with ^:private meta data and a doc-string, with placeholders for name and value.
{:name "def-"
:detail "def private"
:snippet "(def ^:private ${1:name}\n \"${2:doc-string}\"\n $0)"}
A defn form with name, doc-string and args tab-stops
{:name "defn"
:detail "Create public function"
:snippet "(defn ${1:name}\n \"${2:docstring}\"\n [${3:args}]\n $0)"}
A defn form with private metatdata. Including name, doc-string and args tab-stops
{:name "defn-"
:detail "Create public function"
:snippet "(defn ^:private ${1:name}\n \"${2:docstring}\"\n [${3:args}]\n $0)"}
A namespace form with name, doc-string and require tab-stop.
Clojure CLI aliases and library dependenciesλ︎
Add Clojure CLI alias to deps.edn, with an :extra-paths and :extra-deps section
{:name "deps-alias"
:detail "deps.edn alias with extra path & deps"
:snippet
":${1:category/name}
{:extra-paths [\"${2:path}\"]
:extra-deps {${3:deps-maven or deps-git}}}$0"}
Add a Maven style dependency to a Clojure CLI deps.edn project.
{:name "deps-maven"
:detail "deps.edn Maven dependency"
:snippet
"${1:domain/library-name} {:mvn/version \"${2:1.0.0}\"}$0"}
Add a dependency from a Git repository, where the library is named after the remote Git repository, i.e io.github.user|org/library-name for the GitHub repository https://github.com/user|org/library-name.
The :git/sha defines a specific commit to use for the dependency.
{:name "deps-git"
:detail "deps.edn Git dependency"
:snippet
"${1:domain/library-name}
{:git/sha \"${2:git-sha-value}\"}$0"}
Additionally a Git tag can be specified, enabling the use of the short SHA value for :git/sha (short sha is the first 7 characters of the 40 character SHA-1 value).
A Git client can obtain the short form of a SHA from a Git repository
{:name "deps-git-tag"
:detail "Git dependency"
:snippet
"${1:domain/library-name}
{:git/tag \"${2:git-tag-value}\"
:git/sha \"${3:git-sha-value}\"}$0"}
If a library is not named after the domain of the Git repository, the URL of the Git repository must be specified using the :git/url key.
{:name "deps-git-url"
:detail "Git URL dependency"
:snippet
"${1:domain/library-name}
{:git/url \"https://github.com/$1\"
:git/sha \"${2:git-sha-value}\"}$0"}
Add a library dependency that is a local Clojure project.
{:name "deps-local"
:detail "deps.edn Maven dependency"
:snippet
"${1:domain/library-name} {:local/root \"${2:/path/to/project/root}\"}$0"}
Require Library Dependenciesλ︎
Require a library when using REPL driven development in a rich comment block, adding a (require ,,,) form when evaluating the use of a library without forcing it to be loaded when loading the namespace.
{:name "require-rdd"
:detail "require for rich comment experiments"
:snippet "(require '[${1:namespace} :as ${2:alias}]$3)$0"}
A basic :require expression for an ns form.
A :require expression for an ns form, including a :as directive to define an alias for the required namespace.
{:name "require-as"
:detail "ns require with :as alias"
:snippet "(:require [${1:namespace} :as ${2:alias}]$3)$0"}
A :require expression for an ns form, including a :refer directive to include specific function definitions and vars by name.
{:name "require-refer"
:detail "ns require with :refer"
:snippet "(:require [${1:namespace} :refer [$2]]$3)$0"}
It is idiomatic to use require with refer to pull in specific functions and vars from another namespace. The use function is not recommended as it can easily pull more transitive dependencies into the current namespace, causing unexpected results
{:name "use"
:detail "require refer preferred over use"
:snippet "(:require [${1:namespace} :refer [$2]])$0"}
Clojure.test snippetsλ︎
When writing a deftest, a new assertion written may be better in a new group. The testing snippet will create a new testing form and pull in the following assertion.
{:name "deftest"
:detail "deftest clojure.test"
:snippet
"(deftest ${1:name}-test
(testing \"${2:Context of the test assertions}\"
(is (= ${3:assertion-values}))$4))
$0"}
Create a new assertion group using the clojure.test/testing form.
Using testing before an assertion form pull that assertion into the group
{:name "testing"
:detail "testing clojure.test"
:snippet "(testing \"${1:description-of-assertion-group}\"\n $0)"}
Define an is assertion for a deftest