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I'm learning clj/cljs .. finding that experience a blast! I almost never do any front end work, but with cljs and re-agent, I found myself productive. Clj itself strikes me as a very well thought out language

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Check out re-frame [1], too. It's a very thin layer on top of Reagent, but it will help you to get the overall structure just right.

Also, its README is worth reading even if you won't use re-frame :)

[1]: https://github.com/Day8/re-frame

Re-frame was the project that sucked me in. It is a good read, from the README to the code.

I enjoy clojure a lot, I've had some difficulty getting started with cljs though. It seems like all the guides on getting set up with tooling are out of date. I'd particularly like to use it with node for scripting tasks, since the Clojure startup time makes it impractical to use for anything that isn't a long-running task.

What have you used to get up and running?

Lumo[1] probably fits your use case perfectly. It's a ClojureScript REPL running in a NodeJS context. You have access to both bootstrap-ClojureScript-compatible libs as well as the whole NodeJS ecosystem. The REPL has some nice ergonomic features and comes with a TCP socket REPL you can use with Emacs inf-clojure and (I hear) Cursive.

[1]: https://github.com/anmonteiro/lumo

Interesting, I'll check it out! Thanks for the tip

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