Using Djblue's portal for tap in Babashka

Jul 18, 2023

I often deal with a repl-crashing amount of data via Babashka and so needed to find a nice way of browsing data. In clojure I reach for hashp but this time I thought I’d try out Chris Badahdah’s Portal which describes itself as the following: “A clojure tool to navigate through your data”. Amazingly, you can even try it out online!

Here’s how I set it up:

In bb.edn:

{
...
:deps {djblue/portal {:mvn/version "0.42.1"}}
...
}

Then in the REPL:

(do
  (.addShutdownHook (Runtime/getRuntime)
                    (Thread. (fn [] (p/close))))
  (def portal (p/open {:app true}))
  (add-tap #'p/submit))

If you have Chrom(ium?) installed, you should get a new window and from this point, tap> will send data there ready to be explored.

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Using Djblue's portal for tap in Babashka