15. The Frontend: A ClojureScript UI
Overview
In this chapter, we will go over the basics of React's virtual DOM and lifecycle and then provide the tools necessary to build a rich user interface for the data application outlined in the previous chapters. We will see how to call JavaScript code from ClojureScript and how to convert between JavaScript and ClojureScript objects.
By the end of this chapter, you will be able to build a rich user interface for a data application.
Introduction
Clojure is a hosted language, which means that it runs on top of another language. In the same way that Clojure runs on top of the JVM, ClojureScript runs on top of JavaScript. More precisely, a ClojureScript program is transpiled into a JavaScript program ...
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