Below is a DEFUN-JS macro for defining PS functions at the Lisp top-level. It creates a Lisp stub with the same signature whose body simply throws an error telling you that you tried to call a PS function from Lisp. Why is that useful? Because now your PS functions are fully integrated with Slime. You can jump around with M-., get arglist info in the minibuffer, and so on.
After a week of using this, I can't believe how much of a difference it makes.
In PS, DEFUN-JS translates trivially to DEFUN. Of course you still need a way to collect the JS emitted by all these forms, but PS is agnostic on how that should be done.
A side note: we also converted nearly all our ps macros to DEFMACRO+PS forms at the toplevel. This has the neat property that you can now look at expansions using the highly convenient Slime macroexpand. I doubt that this is a perfect solution (no doubt you can trip yourself up on differences between the CL and PS macro environments), but it's sure handier than calling PS::PS-MACROEXPAND from the REPL.
Daniel
p.s. The following has been stripped of a couple of functions specific to our project. I tested it a bit, but if I missed anything, let me know.
(defmacro defun-js (name lambda-list &body body) (declare (ignore body)) (labels ((sym% (argspec) (if (symbolp argspec) argspec (car argspec)))) (multiple-value-bind (required optionals restp rest keyp keys allowp auxp aux morep more-context more-count beyond-requireds? key-object) (ps::parse-lambda-list lambda-list) (declare (ignore restp keyp allowp auxp aux morep more-context more-count beyond-requireds? key-object)) ;; get rid of init forms, which can't be evaluated in Lisp. (setf optionals (mapcar #'sym% optionals) keys (mapcar #'sym% keys)) `(defun ,name (,@required ,@(when optionals `(&optional ,@optionals)) ,@(when rest `(&rest ,rest)) ,@(when keys `(&key ,@keys))) (declare (ignore ,@required ,@optionals ,@(when rest (list rest)) ,@keys)) (error "The ~s function is js-only and cannot be called from Lisp." ',name)))))
(defpsmacro defun-js (name lambda-list &body body) `(defun ,name ,lambda-list ,@body))