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Boot is a Clojure build framework and ad-hoc Clojure script evaluator. Boot provides a runtime environment that includes all of the tools needed to build Clojure projects from scripts written in Clojure that run in the context of the project.

Core Concepts

• Environments
• Boot environment — Boot's classpath configuration.
• Java environment
• Tasks — Boot's modular building blocks.
• Built-ins — Documentation and usage examples.
• Third-party
• Tasks Options — How to add command line options to tasks.
• Filesets — The immutable filesystem abstraction that tasks operate on.
• Pods — Boot's classpath isolation mechanism.

Documentation

• Configuring Boot — Configuring Boot itself, and your Clojure project.
• Updating Boot — Update boot, pin project to specific version of boot
• JVM Options — Faster startup, fix PermGen and heap space errors
• S3 Repositories — Fetch dependencies from a private S3 repo
• Scripts — Write self-contained, executable, shebang style scripts in Clojure
• Task Writer's Guide — Conventions and idioms for task writers
• Boot for Leiningen Users — How to do lein profiles, etc. in boot
• Repl reloading — How to easily reload modified sources with repl
• Repository Credentials and Deploying — Deploying artifacts with Boot and GPG setup.
• Snippets
• Troubleshooting
• FAQ
• API Docs
• Core
• Pod
• Util

Community

• Community Tasks
• Community Projects
• Blog Posts

Editor, IDE, and tool integration

• For Vim Users — Vim setup, connect to boot REPL, etc.
• Emacs Cider REPL — Use Emacs Cider middleware with boot's repl task
• Emacs inf-clojure REPL — Use inf-clojure with boot
• Light Table REPL — Use boot with Light Table

Operating System Specific Guides

• Using Boot on Windows