Trying nbb with a @google-cloud module

[slimslenderslacks]

This worked really well. I tried out the nlp sentiment module running from nbb

https://slimslenderslacks.github.io/nbb-sentiment

Part way through, I wondered whether babashka.process might be available but I think that's still only available for bb scripting. It was nice to see how easy it is to use an npm module though. Learning curve was neglible.

[borkdude]

@slimslenderslacks Cool! Yes, babashka.process is JVM only. For node there are several libraries available, e.g. the built-in child_process or the (external) execa library.

[slimslenderslacks]

Thanks! That makes sense.

[borkdude]

Nice blog btw. I shared it on Clojurians Slack and Twitter. I'll post a link on Reddit too.

[slimslenderslacks]

Ya, sounds good. I'll also write up a completely bizarre scenario where I used nbb to script against an npm module which had itself been compiled from clojurescript (via shadow-cljs). This can't possibly be a good idea. However, the existing clojurescript module used core.async so I just kind of wondered if it would even work. And it did. So I ended up with shadow-cljs watching a clojurescript codebase that exported async functions, being "npm linked" to an nbb project which was running those javascript functions. What??? But ya, that does actually work.

[borkdude]

Hahaha, amazing!