Why Make Web Apps in Clojure?
Clojure boasts tens of thousands of users; it’s used in a wide range of settings, including banks and hospitals. Clojure is likely the most popular Lisp dialect today for starting new development. Despite being a young language, it has proven itself in serious production systems and the feedback from users has been overwhelmingly positive.
As web development is one of the major domains for using Clojure, several popular libraries and frameworks have sprouted in this area. The Clojure web stack is based on the Ring and Compojure libraries.[1][2] Ring is the base HTTP library, while Compojure provides routing on top of it. In the following chapters you’ll become familiar with the web stack and how to use it effectively ...
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