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ClojureScript compilation made easy

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askonomm·Nov 1, 2022

You can already develop with ClojureScript on the back-end. A popular ClojureScript compiler, Shadow-CLJS (https://github.com/thheller/shadow-cljs) has a target for Node among many others.

In Cherry: ClojureScript to ES6 Compiler

krn·Jul 30, 2022

> When revisiting old projects I have seen countless of Clojure dependencies having died in the meantime. I have replaced utility libraries with more recent utility libraries sometimes several times. Very annoying. Yes, the "best in class" libraries change every few years in Clojure's universe, but they always bring huge improvements that require completely new APIs. For instance: https://github.com/plumatic/schema -> https://github.com/metosin/malli https://github.com/juxt/bidi -> https://github.com/metosin/reitit https://github.com/bhauman/lein-figwheel -> https://github.com/thheller/shadow-cljs https://github.com/stuartsierra/component -> https://github.com/weavejester/integrant https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen -> https://github.com/practicalli/clojure-deps-edn > So overall Clojure is in a strange situation. For picking it up o

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n-the-job its not the responsible choice probably for most situations I work in. For my private tinkering the JVM dependency feels just a little too heavyweight. I don't see that Clojure will hit an inflection point of adoption in any way in the future that would make it a viable candidate for me to use at work. I think about programming languages as tools for different bottlenecks. – Computational: Rust – Networking: Go – Business logic: Clojure / Python And for many people Python has everything that Clojure is missing: a very low barrier to enter, and a very stable and well-documented ecosystem of frameworks and libraries.

In Clojure needs a Rails

capableweb·Jul 2, 2022

I don't know, the community in general tend to use macros that are well written. I keep seeing core.async being used (`go`) in Clojure projects, and also various macros for writing HTTP servers (compojure being a popular one which main code interface is a macro `defroutes`). ClojureScript projects also routinely add support for making asynchronous code look synchronous (like `async/await` in vanilla JavaScript) via macros. shadow-cljs's `js-await` being one of the well-written ones: https://github.com/thheller/shadow-cljs/blob/49fb078b834e64f... Usage: (defn my-async-fn [foo] (js-await [the-result (promise-producing-call foo)] (doing-something-with-the-result the-result) (catch failure (prn [:oh-oh failure]))) I'd say if adding a macro makes things harder to understand, you probably need to re-evaluate

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if you really should have a macro here, or the interface of the macro.

In Open source is not about you (2018)

capableweb·Jun 1, 2022

Unclear what "rendering a webpage" entails exactly. If you want to do frontend development, you can give shadow-cljs a try, the quickstart is pretty quick: https://github.com/thheller/shadow-cljs#quick-start If you want to just render server-side HTML, something like compojure (HTTP routing) and hiccup (Clojure data -> HTML) is pretty easy and quick to get started with (https://gist.github.com/zehnpaard/2071c3f55ed319aa8528d54d90...). If you want to generate HTML files to serve with nginx/whatever, you can just use hiccup and `(spit)` the resulting HTML to files on disk.

In ClojureDocs – Community-powered documentation and examples for Clojure

ARandomerDude·Apr 5, 2022

React and ReactNative in Clojure(Script) are amazing if you work in that area. Honestly, I'd never go back to a JS implementation. Reagent [1] provides a seamless interface for components, classes, hooks, etc. and ShadowCljs [2] is a fantastic build tool for the ecosystem. Re-frame [3] is a popular framework in this space. [1] https://reagent-project.github.io/ [2] https://github.com/thheller/shadow-cljs [3] https://github.com/day8/re-frame

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