1. Starting Your Project with Leiningen
To get anywhere reusing Clojure libraries, you’ll need to set up Leiningen. It is an abstraction on top of the Maven infrastructure used in Clojure. The big idea is that you declare the libraries and versions that you’ll need in a project.clj file, and then it will go and get them for you.
Assumptions
In this chapter we assume the following:
You know how to add files to your path and grant permissions.
Benefits
The benefits of Leiningen are similar to those of Maven. You will get a consistent project file structure and library dependency management. This means that other Leiningen projects will have a ...
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