Clojure Web Development Essentials

by Ryan Baldwin

Develop your own web application with the effective use of the Clojure programming language This book is for anyone who's worked with Clojure and wants to use it to start developing applications for the Web. Experience or familiarity with basic Clojure syntax is a must, and exposure to Leiningen (or other similar build tools such as Maven) would be helpful. Functional programming enables developers to create and deploy applications quickly and easily. Using the Clojure programming language and the Leiningen build tool, this book teaches you how to leverage various Clojure libraries into the building blocks of a web-based application. We'll start by generating a new, fully runnable, baseline web application using the Leiningen Luminus template. From there we'll examine the different pieces that compose our application, and learn the basics of the underlying Ring framework. Subsequent chapters will focus on each technology and leverage those technologies to build additional functionality into our application. You'll learn how to validate user submitted data, authentication, account creation, how to interact with a database, and more. Finally, we'll create an environment configuration and deploy our app. By the end of this book you'll have created a full fledged application from start to finish, and you'll have the requisite skills to develop an efficient and robust web application.

232 pages, Paperback

First published February 16, 2015

Reviews

[Joel Gregory · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good introduction to Clojure web development using the Luminus template. Covers the basics without going in depth so is great for the beginner who wants a worked example in addition to the Luminus project page. aving not done Clojure web development before, this book got me up and running quickly with common-sense guidance.

[Pablo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good intro to Luminus and the libraries it comes with.

[Iván · Rating 3 out of 5]

He has a funny style of teaching.