AIaidenn0·Dec 3, 2016
I also use lisp for web development, and want to second this:
> There is no fixed stack, though people want to make you believe there is.
My stack:
I use parenscript[5] fairly heavily (to the point where I'm now a contributor). Note that parenscript is mostly javascript semantics with lisp syntax, but macros for it are written in common-lisp, which makes a lot of the javascript annoyances go away.
Like jlg23, I use cl-who for html generation.
I spent a while experimenting with css generation, but now just use something prepackaged (currently Pure[1]). If I had need for a custom look, I would pay someone who knows graphic design to generate a layout, and I'd code to that.
I've rotated between several JSON libraries to the point that I couldn't say which one I used for my last project; for JSON I'm very opinionated on the proper mapping f
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rom JS types to lisp, and none of the libraries do the Right Thing out of the box, so I wrap them with something that will.
As users expect something less like "fill out a form and hit submit" and more like "Instantly responsive web application that saves my work as I go" I started experimenting with using parenscript with various JS application libraries. I found React to be okay[2], but much prefer the simplicity of Mithril[3].
For webserver, I use clack[4] which is in roughly the same space as WSGI is for python or Ring is for clojure. It is sadly severely lacking in documentation (at least in English). A clack tutorial is on my "todo" list.
I happen to run clack behind mongrel2, but that's because it's the server I'm most familiar with; it has backends for FastCGI and several native lisp web servers, and adding new backends is very easy (the mongrel2 backend is under 200 lines of code).
For a database I use postmodern[6] (a library for pgsql) and I use cl-redis[7] for quick & dirty projects, as a key/value store tends to make for more rapid prototyping.
1: http://purecss.io/
2: https://github.com/jasom/parenscriptx
3: https://github.com/jasom/parenscriptm
4: https://github.com/fukamachi/clack
5: https://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/
6: http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/postmodern/
7: https://github.com/vseloved/cl-redis