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Mastering Clojure Macros
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Mastering Clojure Macros

by Colin Jones
August 2014
Intermediate to advanced
120 pages
2h 45m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Compojure

Like most of James Reeves’ libraries, Compojure[22] inspires us to strive for elegance in our own work. If you’ve done any web work with Clojure, at some point you’ve probably used Compojure, on top of Ring,[23] to handle your HTTP routing. A typical app using Compojure starts out something like this:

apis/compojure_1.clj
 
(​ns​ hello-world
 
(:require [compojure.core :refer [defroutes GET]]
 
[compojure.route :refer [not-found]]))
 
 
(defroutes app
 
(GET ​"/"​ [] ​"Hello World"​)
 
(not-found ​"Page not found"​))

Before we look at the implementations of the Compojure bits that we’re using, take a moment to consider how concise this code is. Beyond the opening ns form, we need only a few lines of code (plus a bit of wiring in the

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