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Clojure - boot compose task

I am using boot, and I am happy with it so far. I still have to run two tasks currently, in two different consoles : boot dev and boot autotest.

Therefore I would like to know it it is feasible/advised to make all boot tasks within the same JVM.

I tried to compose the tasks like so :

(deftask autotest []
  (comp
    (watch)
    (run-tests)))

(deftask dev
  "Start the dev env..."
  [t run-tests       bool "Run the tests continuously"]
  (comp
   ....
   (if run-tests (autotest) identity)))

But now when running boot dev -t I get an exception from one of the libraries that I am using, which could mean that I have to isolate it.

Are boot tasks intended to be used like that, and can boot pods solve my problem ?

Solution

  • Answering my own question:

    • I no longer have this exception
    • this is one of the strength of boot to use one single JVM (as opposed to leiningen)