SMsmnplk·Apr 13, 2020
The other template i like is chestnut https://github.com/plexus/chestnut
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chestnut
Application template for Clojure + ClojureScript web apps
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5 sourceshttps://github.com/plexus/chestnut is Clojurescript, but it's fantastic. It's quite easy to roll out a UI and you can build your backend to your specifications. A bit less opinionated than Luminus, but both great for just getting started.
In A Clojure learning journeyNice I'm going to check this out... I've been using chestnut a lot lately.
https://github.com/plexus/chestnut
In Clojure 1.7 is now availableClojureScript, along with Reagent (or some other React.js wrapper like Om or Quiescent - I currently prefer Reagent, which has been gaining lots of traction recently), Figwheel and a browser REPL, has really had a lot of impact on how I view GUI development.
I do Winforms development in my day job and I hate it. The feedback loop I have from changing something in the code to viewing it in the application can be a matter of 1-2 minutes (need to compile, start up, login, setup everything to the correct state, etc). Going from that to being able to grow the application in real-time, without ever having to restart/refresh, is amazing, and makes me feel infinitely more productive. Combining it with Cordova to make mobile web apps, where I can deploy once to my phone and then have changes be applied over wifi as I type them into my text editor,
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is super sweet.
Getting everything set up can be a bit tricky, but https://github.com/plexus/chestnut makes it a whole lot easier.
If you are one of those who are extremely frustrated with ClojureScript's REPL situation like I was,I cannot recommend enough that when you're starting your next project, do the following:
lein new chestnut <project name>
This uses a leiningen template[1] that does all the config and so forth of the REPL for you. It is a lifesaver. I basically refused to use ClojureScript until I saw this. Now, super easy.
1. https://github.com/plexus/chestnut
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