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Ask HN: Clojure Web Dev Resources?

by mcafeeryan92 on 3/6/15, 10:17 PM with 4 comments

Is there an equivalent resource to the Rails Tutorial at railstutorial.org/book for Clojure? Something that gives opinions and guidance on a reasonable way to setup a Clojure web app and handle things like project structure, compiling static assets like sass, templating, and probably most importantly, testing?

It seems like the preference among Clojure devs is to just throw in libraries and slowly build up from small pieces, which is great, but I'd love a little wisdom surrounding common functionality and how to get basic boilerplate setup, and pitfalls to avoid.

by yogthos on 3/7/15, 5:02 AM
I put together Luminus http://www.luminusweb.net/ as a beginner resource for common web apps. There's also another recent book on building apps using Luminus https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/clojure-web...
by pairing on 3/7/15, 3:39 AM
This book is a good starting point: https://pragprog.com/book/dswdcloj/web-development-with-cloj.... It's no rails tutorial but I found it very helpful coming from a rails background. It is a good intro into the more popular web libraries available in Clojure and how they are used. It sounds like what you're looking for.