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compojure
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weavejester / compojure

compojure

A concise routing library for Ring/Clojure

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What it is

A concise routing library for Ring/Clojure

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Where it is used

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year18 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2009-01-20 12:07:32 UTC to 2022-07-02 13:13:59 UTC.

012342009-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20092010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

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20092009-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20102010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

From the project README

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Compojure Compojure is a small routing library for Ring that allows web applications to be composed of small, independent parts. Installation Add the following dependency to your deps.edn file: compojure/compojure {:mvn/version "1.7.2"} Or to your Leiningen project file: [compojure "1.7.2"] Documentation Wiki API Docs Community Google Group #compojure on Freenode IRC Usage This small Compojure application demonstrates creating a Ring handler from two routes: (ns hello-world.core (:require [compojure.core :refer :all] [compojure.route :as route])) (defroutes app (GET "/" [] "<h1>Hello World</h1>") (route/not-found "<h1>Page not found</h1>")) Also refer to the Getting Started page on the wiki. License Copyright © 2025 James Reeves Distributed under the Eclipse Public License, the same as Clojure.
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What Hacker News says

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kaoD·Jun 25, 2013
> ...has been standard advice since decades before Clojure. Yes, but we're in a thread dedicated to Clojure ;) > "Macros make things horribly complicated" is nonsense, or no skilled programmer would use them. Which is what happens, really, and when used it's in a very limited fashion. For example, for quite popular projects inside the Clojure community: Leiningen used one macro[1] and Compojure two[2]. A properly done (and properly used) macro might not make things complicated, but this leads me to the next paragraph. > ease of debugging is an issue quite apart from anything to do with macros. It's usually hard, but macros make it HORRIBLE since you can easily lost track of the generated code. Like if translating from Clojure to Java Stack Traces wasn't hard enough... Whenever you use a macro, the stack traces you receive from the code us
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ing it might not like like what you expect at all. Macros are bad because they mutate your code. You usually have to expand the macro and debug there instead of just looking at your damn code. The big problem is not macros, but code which uses macros. [1] https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/search?q=defmacro&r... [2]https://github.com/weavejester/compojure/search?q=defmacro&r...
In Why I am so excited about Clojure
shenedu·Mar 29, 2013
pedestal is quite a large project, try to offer a complete solution for building web application in Clojure, from server side to client side, to tooling. http-kit is a very small and focused library, It just do one thing: talk in HTTP. http-kit need to work together with other libraries like Ring[1] and Compojure[2] to do the server side. Few good things about http-kit: 1. Very fast and scalable, almost as fast as what you can get from the hardware. 2. Focus, do one thing and do it well, thing about Linux/Unix's philosophy. Personally, I prefer this way of doing software. [1] https://github.com/ring-clojure/ring [2] https://github.com/weavejester/compojure
In Unified API of WebSocket and HTTP long polling/streaming for Clojure
egeozcan·Jan 28, 2013
Don't get me wrong, I really like what you are doing but there are a lot of spelling and grammar errors in your web site. I'm not a native speaker (I also make a lot of errors) but maybe you can get some help from one? Not a big deal but just wanted to let you know. Makes sense if you want to get popular =) I also have a question: Do you plan to make any comparison tests with Compojure (https://github.com/weavejester/compojure) and lib-noir?
In 600K concurrent HTTP connections with Clojure and http-kit
cgag·Jan 9, 2013
Clojure is very capable for web development, but getting started is not as clear cut as it is with something like Rails or Django. This is because the Clojure community tends to eschew large frameworks, and instead prefers using smaller, more focused libraries. This provides a lot of flexibility, but is intimidating at first because it requires you to choose your own libraries for routing, db interaction, templating, etc. Everything is to be built on top of Ring, which is the Clojure equivalent of Rack or WSGI. Compojure is pretty much the standard for routing at the moment. Korma is a very popular DSL for writing SQL. For templating, Hiccup and Enlive are popular, but there are other options as well. I would start off by getting a decent understanding of Ring and Compojure and building from there. -- https://github.com/ring-clojure/
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ring https://github.com/weavejester/compojure https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup https://github.com/cgrand/enlive http://sqlkorma.com/ http://www.clojure-toolbox.com/ is really helpful for finding appropriate libraries.
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