JAjacobobryant·Aug 11, 2026Submission
Biff.datastar: lightweight web UIs with Clojure and Datastar
2 points · Open discussionjacobobryant
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A Clojure web framework for solo developers.
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4 sources> If it weren't for those, would Pathom be a drop-in replacement? Or is there different logic?
I could've written biff.graph to work with actual Pathom resolvers. In fact it wouldn't be hard to write a shim that takes Pathom resolvers and returns biff.graph resolvers. Although not all resolvers would work since biff.graph doesn't support everything in EQL (e.g. union queries, attribute parameters).
The query results aren't strictly guaranteed to be the same, so even with a shim I wouldn't recommend dropping biff.graph into a large project that's already using Pathom. And then that's not even getting into all the Pathom features that biff.graph doesn't support at all (lenient mode, plugins, async mode, the graphql adapter...).
But as for the core concepts, yeah I'd say they're pretty close.
> I'm curious in what scenario PathomViz is not g
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iving enough info. I had a lot of trouble getting it working tbh
I had that trouble too heh heh--I tried running it I know at least once but didn't succeed. I don't remember exactly what the issue was... but I probably should figure that out.
Even if I got better at debugging Pathom though, for Biff I would still prefer to have an implementation that's easier for users to understand so that ideally they don't even need extra tools to aid with debugging.
FWIW there is an example here[1] of what the biff.graph error looks like when a nested required attribute can't be resolved. That file also has examples of some additional validation logic I've thrown in, e.g. biff.graph will complain if one resolver declares an attribute as a join and another resolver declares it as a scalar. Sometime for our codebase at work I'll probably write some assertions to do those kinds of checks on our Pathom resolvers.
[1] https://github.com/jacobobryant/biff/blob/v2.x/libs/graph/do...
Biff.graph: structure your Clojure codebase as a queryable graph
147 points · Open discussionAs the author of a different project also named Biff, I do have to warn you that half the comments on your HN posts will be people quoting back to the future--though I haven't decided yet if that's annoying or an engagement hack!
[1] https://github.com/jacobobryant/biff
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