Web Development with Clojure, 3rd Edition

Define the Routes with Reitit

Reitit is a general purpose routing library that can be used to provide routing on top of Ring as well as for client-side routing, as we’ll see later on. It provides a way to associate handler functions with a URL and an HTTP method.

We already saw some examples of routing using Reitit when we built our first application in Chapter 1, ​Getting Your Feet Wet​. Now let’s take a closer look at the functionality it provides. First, add it as a dependency in the ring-app project.

ring-app-5/project.clj

:dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.10.1"]
               [metosin/muuntaja "0.6.7"]
               [metosin/reitit "0.5.11"]
               [metosin/ring-http-response "0.9.1"]
               [ring "1.8.2"]]

With the dependency in place, let’s update the ...