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The Clojure Workshop

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

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.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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2. Data Types and Immutability

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about namespaces in Clojure. Namespaces are key Clojure concepts. We organize code into namespaces. We investigated various ways in which we can import namespaces in Clojure by using refer, require, and use. With each option to import, we learned the syntax of importing functions and when to use each type of function. We went into depth and investigated the :only, :exlude, and :rename keywords, which help us to fine-tune importing.

Then, we learned about Leiningen—a popular Clojure build tool. We created a Leiningen application and explored how Clojure projects are structured. We added dependencies on libraries. Finally, we saw how we can customize Leiningen projects using profiles. We created an application that accepted command-line arguments that were used by the application to customize the output.

In the next chapter, we will investigate host platform interop—accessing Java and JavaScript from Clojure.

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