An expanded comment on Clojure web development

Re:An expanded comment on Clojure web development by adambard on Thursday February 06, 2014 @01:54PM (#7192180)

I think it's definitely worth starting with just compojure, or even just ring. I don't know of any other language/library where writing request/response handlers is so approachable ( notwithstanding any commentary on the lisp syntax or functional style); even Flask and Sinatra require a routing layer.

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Re:An expanded comment on Clojure web development by moomin on Thursday February 06, 2014 @02:17PM (#7192307)

Luminus is basically just a set of sane defaults for Ring. Anything substantial (e.g. cljs-ajax) is split out into its own library.

Basically, I'd recommend luminus until you get opinions of your own (e.g. I rather like bidi).

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Re:An expanded comment on Clojure web development by auvrw on Thursday February 06, 2014 @06:43PM (#7193720)

ah, i dunno, compare

  (defroutes app
  	(GET "/" [] "<h1>Hello World</h1>"))

and

  @app.route('/hello')
  def hello():
      return "hey"

seems about equivalent.

EDIT: except for the inherent awesomeness of s-expressions (>__> ?)

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Re:An expanded comment on Clojure web development by moomin on Friday February 07, 2014 @03:12PM (#7198424)

It's worth pointing out that in the first case what you get is a pure function that you can test without any mocking whatsoever.

Sinatra's lovely, though.

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Re:An expanded comment on Clojure web development by auvrw on Saturday February 08, 2014 @08:30PM (#7203779)

heh, i wouldn't know anything about ruby. that was flask, of course.

the promise of clojure to me (aside from liking lisp) is similar to that of node: only having to maintain one codebase for both client and server sides.

also, really should say thanks to the author of the original article. returned here today when i realized that korma doesn't create tables and i'll need .... lobos, apparently, which was not mentioned in any of my searches for such a library. why didn't this submission get more upvotes?

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