Luminus is a microframework for quickly building powerful web applications in Clojure. It is fully configurable and has strong built-in database support, both for traditional SQL and NoSQL databases. Getting started is easy, especially if you use one of the built-in Leiningen templates. It is strongly recommended that you consult the documentation while playing around with Luminus. You can find this at http://www.luminusweb.net.
In the following sections, we will be creating a new project based on the myapp template and then run and explore it.
As we have seen, Counterclockwise can generate projects based on Leiningen templates. There's an issue when creating projects, though. Counterclockwise uses its built-in Leiningen version that can be older than the latest version. At the time of writing this book, Counterclockwise throws exceptions while generating a project based on the luminus myapp template. This problem can be solved by creating...