Zach Oakes’ Lightmod 1.0 released - Full stack hot reloading IDE for Clojure & ClojureScript

Zach Oakes, the author of many popular Clojure projects like the Nightcode IDE or the play-cljs ClojureScript game library, has just released Lightmod, an all in one bundle and IDE for Clojure/ClojureScript development.

It is fully self contained, you only need to download the Lightmod app, you don’t even need to install a JDK, and you can get started writing Clojure and ClojureScript code that hot reloads when you make changes (on both the server and the client). The result is shown on the left in a web view while the code you edit is on the right. Hot reloading still works if you open the site you are working on in another browser.

This could be an amazing tool for someone who wants to get started with Clojure without having to figure out how all of the complex build tools work and how you have to set up a development environment. It even comes with different templates to create new projects, for example a chat app or an HTML5 platformer game.

Zach also made a screencast showing Lightmod off:

You can download Lightmod for Windows, Mac and Linux here. It's released Open Source as public domain.

The release announcement hasn’t received any attention on Hacker News or Reddit yet, so let’s see if the Steem community can do better for this amazing tool ;)