SMsmnplk·Apr 18, 2018
Have you tried these tutorials https://github.com/magomimmo/modern-cljs ?
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13 sourcesThere are plenty. https://github.com/magomimmo/modern-cljs Is a good one. You probably need to read one of the books on Clojure. I wouldn't recommend starting with "Joy of Clojure". It is definitely "must read', but do it later, after you learn some basics.
In Ask HN: What web framework do you use? Why did you choose it?I agree with you that there is tons of value in digging into the various boot tasks that make this workflow/tutorial possible. The reason I decided not to is that the linked tutorial on modern-cljs# 1-3 does a great job of that!
[1] - https://github.com/magomimmo/modern-cljs/blob/master/doc/sec...
In You should be using Boot and ClojureScriptI use clojurescript to interact with React. Luckily with a small community we aren't overrun by build tools! I've recently taken up the boot[1], and it's amazing. I'm able to quickly get up a live-reloadable environment wherein I can actually _understand_ what is going on.
cd my_project
boot dev
'boot dev' is a task that's defined in the project's build.boot file. It compiles the cljs files to a main.js file, and serves it from a specified directory.
Any edit to a cljs file triggers a recompile (of that namespace only - takes about 0.1 second). If the recompile is unsuccessful then a buzz sound plays. If the recompile is successful, boot will play a nice subtle ding sound, and reload the main namespace. With immutable datastructures everywhere, arranging the app's state to allow reloading is simple.
How simple? There's a fantas
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tic tutorial about how to setup everything I've just described at: [2].
This template will spit out all the code needed for the live-reload-cljs thing [3]. Once you install boot (with 'brew boot-clj' it's on apt-get too), You can run it with
boot -d seancorfield/boot-new new -t tenzing -a +reagent -n boot-cljs-project
cd boot-cljs-project
boot dev
;; then edit the cljs file.
[1] http://boot-clj.com
[2] https://github.com/magomimmo/modern-cljs/blob/master/doc/sec...
[3] https://github.com/martinklepsch/tenzing
A series of tutorials on ClojureScript
2 points · Open discussionhttps://github.com/magomimmo/modern-cljs is how I got started with Cljs. If you scroll down, you'll see some tutorials that get you set up and lead you to a workflow.
http://swannodette.github.io/2013/10/27/the-essence-of-cloju...
In The Future of JavaScript MVCsIt looks great, thanks! Here's another one I just saw: https://github.com/magomimmo/modern-cljs/blob/master/doc/tut...
I got started with CLJS about a year ago but ran into performance issues with the specific application I was building, hopefully things have improved now.
In ClojureScript 101I'm also not impressed with the Clojure/ClojureScript code-sharing story, which requires hacks[2] to use the same code on the client and server.
I think this is definitely a "the glass is half-empty" interpretation. I mean, let's point out that you're complaining about an environment where you can share code between a codebase running on the server and one on the client--and it isn't JavaScript. And it's not ideal? Of course it's not ideal. But you can do inter-op with Java (server-side) and JavaScript (client-), using the same syntax, and with cljx, you can do this in the same file. This is freaking awesome, even with the messy bits that come along with it, in my opinion.
A smaller community, fewer libraries and less mature tools makes it kind of a bummer from a social perspective.
As far as this point, there's less I can disagree w
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ith: the community, while small, is awesome, but there is a way to go before ClojureScript, at least, is going to have the ease of "install and get going" that you have with other platforms. Everything from testing to getting a reasonable console up and running is in a state of flux and cannot be favorably compared to JavaScript, other than the argument that ClojureScript provides a better enough programming experience to outweigh the ease-of-setup that JS provides. For me that's more than enough, but for others I can understand that it's not, yet.
But it absolutely is improving, very quickly. We really need more people to be using CLJS and hyping it (as David Nolen is doing) and putting in the time to shave the yaks that need shaving--as people like David Nolen, Kevin Lynagh (http://keminglabs.com/blog/cljs-app-designs/ as well as the aforementioned cljx), Chas Emerick (many contributions, but recently https://github.com/cemerick/austin), Mimmo Cosenza (the fantastic Modern CLJS series: https://github.com/magomimmo/modern-cljs) and many others are doing--so that we can get to that point where the advantages clearly outweigh the disadvantages. I think that time will come, but it's going to require some serious work.
But even now there are compelling reasons to use ClojureScript, including libs like core.async. I think you'd find that, with a bit of patience, there is a lot there to keep you invested in the tools and the community.
EDIT: I just want to add that cljx is not the only or oldest or simplest way to share code. Crossovers using lein-cljsbuild have provided this for a while: https://github.com/emezeske/lein-cljsbuild/blob/master/doc/C...
I would also mention following tutorial on CLJS: https://github.com/magomimmo/modern-cljs
In Communicating Sequential ProcessesWe already had have rudimentary support for source maps - in fact it seems people have already used it to successfully debug their programs. It's not good enough yet for step-by-step debugging - we're getting there.
This is a fantastic tutorial - http://github.com/magomimmo/modern-cljs
RE: performance. I don't know who you talked to, but they are misinformed we spend a ridiculous amount of time on performance. It's certainly possible to do an HTML 5 canvas game in ClojureScript - http://swannodette.github.io/2013/06/10/porting-notchs-minec.... It is true that if you want to do a computationally intensive game you need to know something about JavaScript performance - but that's to be expected.
In ClojureScript: Things That Might Worry You, but Shouldn't (2012)Modern CLJS does a pretty good job of guiding you through Clojurescript's tooling:
https://github.com/magomimmo/modern-cljs
In ClojureScript: Things That Might Worry You, but Shouldn't (2012)I haven't used it but here's a 10-part mega tutorial on modern Clojurescript: https://github.com/magomimmo/modern-cljs/
In Bringing functional to the frontend – Clojure and ClojureScript for the web