Lein Deps REPL

Sometimes you just want to try out a library in a REPL, but throwing up a Leiningen project or even a deps.edn file is so cumbersome. Leiningen can load in dependencies per invocation, but the syntax is quite convoluted, so I wrote this simple bash wrapper to be able to pull in one or more libraries and start a REPL with them.

Usage

./lein-deps-repl '[criterium "0.4.4"]'

The REPL defaults to rebel-readline, which I find much better for quick exploration of a library, but it can be changed like this:

# default repl command
REPL_COMMAND=repl ./lein-deps-repl '[criterium "0.4.4"]'