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The Clojure Workshop

The Clojure Workshop

By : Joseph Fahey , Thomas Haratyk , Scott McCaughie , Yehonathan Sharvit , Konrad Szydlo
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The Clojure Workshop

The Clojure Workshop

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By: Joseph Fahey , Thomas Haratyk , Scott McCaughie , Yehonathan Sharvit , Konrad Szydlo

Overview of this book

The Clojure Workshop is a step-by-step guide to Clojure and ClojureScript, designed to quickly get you up and running as a confident, knowledgeable developer. Because of the functional nature of the language, Clojure programming is quite different to what many developers will have experienced. As hosted languages, Clojure and ClojureScript can also be daunting for newcomers because of complexities in the tooling and the challenge of interacting with the host platforms. To help you overcome these barriers, this book adopts a practical approach. Every chapter is centered around building something. As you progress through the book, you will progressively develop the 'muscle memory' that will make you a productive Clojure programmer, and help you see the world through the concepts of functional programming. You will also gain familiarity with common idioms and patterns, as well as exposure to some of the most widely used libraries. Unlike many Clojure books, this Workshop will include significant coverage of both Clojure and ClojureScript. This makes it useful no matter your goal or preferred platform, and provides a fresh perspective on the hosted nature of the language. By the end of this book, you'll have the knowledge, skills and confidence to creatively tackle your own ambitious projects with Clojure and ClojureScript.
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2. Data Types and Immutability

Testing in ClojureScript

In Clojure, we used the clojure.test library for testing. In ClojureScript, we have a port of clojure.test in the form of cljs.test. In cljs.test, we have functionality that we used when we wrote tests using the clojure.test library. We can use the is and are macros to write our tests. cljs.test provides facilities for asynchronous testing. Asynchronous testing is a type of testing that tests asynchronous code. We will see shortly why it is important that cljs.test allows us to test asynchronous code.

Synchronous code is what developers write most of the time, even without realizing this. In synchronous code, code is executed line by line. For example, the code defined in line 10 needs to finish executing before the code on line 11 can start executing. This is step-by-step execution. Asynchronous coding is a more advanced concept.

In asynchronous programming, executing code and completing the execution of code cannot happen in a line-by-line fashion...

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