clojure cli repl rebel

First way

In order to run REPL (nREPL) server via clojure cli tools with beautiful rebel capabilities just add following section into deps.edn file:

:aliases {
                :repl {:extra-deps {cider/cider-nrepl                       {:mvn/version "0.18.0"}
                                               nrepl                                        {:mvn/version "0.4.5"}
                                               refactor-nrepl                          {:mvn/version "2.4.0"}
                                               com.bhauman/rebel-readline  {:mvn/version "0.1.4"}}
                  :main-opts  ["-e" "(require,(quote,cider-nrepl.main)),"
                               "-e" "(cider-nrepl.main/init,[\"refactor-nrepl.middleware/wrap-refactor\",\"cider.nrepl/cider-middleware\"])"
                               "-e" "(use,'rebel-readline.main),(rebel-readline.main/-main)"]}

}

Then just run with command: clojure -A:repl

Second way

:aliases {
 :repl {:extra-deps {cider/cider-nrepl          {:mvn/version "0.18.0"}
                               nrepl                      {:mvn/version "0.4.5"}
                               refactor-nrepl             {:mvn/version "2.4.0"}
                               com.bhauman/rebel-readline {:mvn/version "0.1.4"}}
                  }
}

clj -R:repl -m nrepl.cmdline -p 7888 -i -m "[refactor-nrepl.middleware/wrap-refactor,cider.nrepl/cider-middleware]"

This command runs repl without rebel capabilities. In order to enable rebel just call it:

user=> (use 'rebel-readline.main)
nil
user=> (rebel-readline.main/-main)
[Rebel readline] Type :repl/help for online help info
user=>


Also, read the docs https://nrepl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage/