As I said in the subject, I'm working on a JS-only (no server-side code) HTML5 webapp in Parenscript with jQuery. I have extensive JS experience, but I'm really new to Common Lisp.
I wanted a setup where I could edit a Parenscript file, hit save, then hit refresh in my browser and immediately see the new code, just as if I were working in Javascript. I built a little server using Hunchentoot and cl-who that runs ps-compile-file on my parenscript source file as needed. This works fairly well, but maybe is not the best way to accomplish this.
However, there's a problem; I wanted to use parenscript functions without the namespace, so I defined a package in serve.lisp that uses parenscript, then put (in-package :innkeeper) at the top of my parenscript file. This doesn't work properly in the 2.2 release of Parenscript (which is what Quicklisp provides). It _does_ work in the git repo version (as of commit 0e01e555f404a7dcb8befb7587288c38abf526c2), but it's annoying to not be able to use Quicklisp for everything.
Once I have a release version I'll want to come up with some lisp program that compiles the parenscript to javascript, minifies it, and sticks it in an also-minified html file from cl-who, so the whole thing is compiled down to a single file. I'd appreciate any best-practice tips on that too.
Just in case my description was unclear, here's what I think are the relevant bits. If needed, I can provide the entire files off-list.
; relevant bits of serve.lisp (defpackage "INNKEEPER" (:use "COMMON-LISP" "HUNCHENTOOT" "CL-WHO" "PARENSCRIPT") (:export :start-innserver :stop-innserver))
(in-package :innkeeper)
(define-easy-handler (jsgen :uri "/innkeeper.js") () (setf (content-type*) "application/javascript") (ps-compile-file "/Users/jon/code/innkeeper/innkeeper.lisp"))
; beginning (and a few representative lines) of innkeeper.lisp
(in-package :innkeeper)
(defmacro immediate (&body body) `((lambda () ,@body)))
(var *inn* (create setup (lambda () ((@ ($ "#top-tabs") tabs)))))
(j-query #'(@ *inn* setup))