I don't usually use Cider, but I had difficulties getting Figwheel 0.4.0 to
work with nREPL in Cursive, as described in this Figwheel issue:
https://github.com/bhauman/lein-figwheel/issues/244
The short version is that I never got it to work with piggieback 0.2.1, but
after downgrading to
I use the setup that you describe; cider, figwheel & cljs-repl in a terminal
without autocomplete. But, I also use use devcards. In my experience devcards
are a very good replacement for the cljs-repl. I hardly even enter anything
directly in the repl since I started using devcards.
My advise
Devcards are fantastic, but I still feel like connecting to a repl is important
as it really allows your editor to understand your code and give you important
information about your environment in the state that it is currently in.
For whatever reason I am able to get everything working when I
Cursive doesn't provide any explicit support for CLJS REPL creation right
now, although it's on my urgent shortlist. The most reliable
configurations, as bhauman notes in that Figwheel issue, generally skip
using nREPL altogether. Cursive actually provides a pretty good experience
with that
