fulcro

I definitely believe Clojure needs a rails. Not only will it help beginners get started, if it can help people get started faster and build fast like Django and rails do, I think it'll help more with adoption. Biff and fulcro seems like they have a shot at this Biff- https://github.com/jacobobryant/biff Fulcro - https://github.com/fulcrologic/fulcro

It's weird how in the JS community rewrites of react are common in the CLJS community using React as a runtime is more common: - https://reagent-project.github.io/ - https://github.com/day8/re-frame - https://github.com/tonsky/rum And my favourite - https://github.com/fulcrologic/fulcro Hosting your work on top of another ecosystem, such that you can still use the underlying ecosystem, gives you a lot of leverage out the gate

Fulcro is the only web framework I'm aware of that uses them throughout - https://github.com/fulcrologic/fulcro - https://github.com/fulcro-legacy/fulcro-incubator/blob/devel... I keep meaning to learn them in the context of a larger web app

The `:` is not visual noise, it indicates that it is a keyword. Without it, you're indicating that you're writing a symbol. Symbols are evaluated, so keywords is a better choice given that they always are what they say they are, whereas you could define `div` to mean `<p>`, point to a function, or any number of other things. You could write a macro to use symbol names literally, so that `div` always means `<div>`, but then you'd have a macro where none was needed, and you'd have no obvious way of using symbols in a non-literal/evaluated way. Fulcro[1] lies little closer to what you're after. The above would be: (div (p "I am a component!") (p :.someclass "I have " (strong "bold") (span {:style {:color "red"}} "and red") "text.")) This is since Fulcro defines the element tags as functions, which are called in orde

Some of my favorite Clojure libraries in this space: - instaparse: takes EBNF (and other formats) as a string and gives you a parser instantly (!!!) https://github.com/Engelberg/instaparse - re-frame: React-Redux alternative that IMO is much easier to work with https://github.com/day8/re-frame - reagent: React wrapper https://reagent-project.github.io/ - ring https://github.com/ring-clojure/ring - fulcro https://github.com/fulcrologic/fulcro More than any library, though, what keeps bringing me back to Clojure is its incredibly blissful set of persistent data structures. It's a pernicious accident of history that we are taught to accept references to mutable objects as normal, inevitable, and desirable in most CS curricula. It is much easier to develop, debug, and maintain immutable data structures instead, and I consider my good fortune

> repulsed by the idea of using a framework I think this is one of the memes in the community which is starting to be reconsidered. You're not alone in seeing these downsides, and people are starting to write about it more (code and words). Things like Fulcro or even Datomic Cloud are very interesting developments in this regard. [1]: https://jacobobryant.com/post/2019/grow/ [2]: http://flyingmachinestudios.com/programming/why-programmers-... [3]: https://github.com/fulcrologic/fulcro

The Web Component API is too imperative. It's hard to composite, and too easy to let data out of sync (not being reactive). For a broader meaning of Web Component (plain React, Vue, etc), they provide good encapsulation and some degree of local reasoning. But harder to communicate and stay sync with other components/server. For Web Component with a centralized store approach (Redux, Mobx Vuex, etc), it breaks local reasoning, and it requires the user to manage the life cycle of data instead of just reuse the life cycle of components. So there is still quite some space to improve. I found the idea of GraphQL co-location is pretty interesting. And I also found there's a ClojureScript library named Fulcro[0] specifically trying to provide the ability to have a global data store while keeping the ability to local reasoning. [0] https://github

I've been doing this using Fulcro [1], a ClojureScript web framework built around React. Among other wonderful features, Fulcro has built-in support for state machines [2]. [1]: https://github.com/fulcrologic/fulcro [2]: https://github.com/fulcrologic/fulcro-incubator/blob/develop...