Web Development with Clojure

Creating the Project

In this section we’ll cover how to create a simple application that serves static resources, provides basic session management, and handles JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) operations.

First let’s create a new application called liberator-service using the compojure-app template.

Once the application is created, add Liberator and Cheshire dependencies to our project.clj dependencies vector:^[40]

Cheshire is a fast and easy-to-use JSON parsing library. We’ll use it for parsing the requests from the client and generating the responses.

At this point, we should be able to start up the read-evaluate-print ...