Bozhidar Batsov, who’s been writing about Embark lately has a nice post on integrating CIDER and Projectile into Embark. I don’t use either of them so you might wonder why I care. The answer is that Batsov’s post is a good example of how to add a new application to Embark.
That turns out to be pretty easy. For projectile, Batsov built it into the app so you’ll have to check the source code to see the details. For CIDER, though, he adds the Embark functionality externally so you can see how it’s done. It’s mainly a matter of writing some straightforward wrapper functions, binding them up in a keymap for Embark, providing a target function that identifies symbols, and finally adding the keymap to Embark.
For me, then, the value of Batsov’s post is that it serves as a how to that shows you the recipe for extending Embark to include new applications.