I managed to find some online discussions related to this topic, connect the dots, and I found out where the logging levels are set in a Luminous project. One will find logback.xml configurations for dev, test, prod in the env/*/resources directories. Simply adding this xml element:
<logger name="io.undertow.websockets" level="warn" />
silences the undertow DEBUG messages and makes the Shadow.cljs REPL operable. For an example of the logback.xml , have a look at:
Of course this all seems obvious to me now, but I felt rather at loss when I made this post. I suppose that is the nature of learning.
Thanks!