How do I stop jetty server in clojure?

Question

I am writing a web application using ring and clojure. I am using the jetty adapter for the development server and emacs/SLIME for IDE. While wrap-reload does help, run-jetty bl

Answer 1

I usually have a line in my Ring app that looks like the following:

(defonce server (run-jetty #'my-app {:port 8080 :join? false}))

This prevents locking up the REPL. It also allows me to recompile this file without worrying that my server will get redefined. It also lets you interact at the REPL like so:

user=> (.stop server)

and

user=> (.start server)