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Clojure Web Development Essentials

By : Baldwin

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Clojure Web Development Essentials

4.5 (6)

By: Baldwin

Overview of this book

This book is for anyone who's worked with Clojure and wants to use it to start developing applications for the Web. Experience or familiarity with basic Clojure syntax is a must, and exposure to Leiningen (or other similar build tools such as Maven) would be helpful.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Getting Started with Luminus

1. Getting Started with Luminus

Leiningen

Dependencies of the app

Luminus file structure

Summary

2. Ring and the Ring Server

2. Ring and the Ring Server

Understanding Ring in Clojure

What is the Ring Server?

Configuring and running the Ring Server

Summary

3. Logging

3. Logging

What is Timbre?

Configuring a Timbre appender

Logging with Timbre

Adding an appender

Summary

4. URL Routing and Template Rendering

4. URL Routing and Template Rendering

What is Compojure?

Creating a Compojure route

What is Selmer?

Creating your first page

Editing the home page

Serving the signup form

Creating the signup page

Summary

5. Handling Form Input

5. Handling Form Input

Handling the form POST

Validating the form POST

Summary

6. Testing in Clojure

6. Testing in Clojure

The necessity of testing

Anatomy of a test

Writing and running our first test

Writing a high-level integration test

Summary

7. Getting Started with the Database

7. Getting Started with the Database

Creating the database schema

Maintaining the database schema

Adding data to the database

Summary

8. Reading Data from the Database

8. Reading Data from the Database

Creating the catalog

Fetching albums from the database

Creating the recently added route

Rendering the results

An exercise!

Summary

9. Database Transactions

9. Database Transactions

Introduction to Database Transactions

The ACID properties

Importance of database transactions

Implementing a transaction

Extending the application requirements in brief

Summary

10. Sessions and Cookies

10. Sessions and Cookies

Sessions

Setting up sessions

Interacting with the session

Restricted routes

Cookies

Extending the application: brief requirements

Summary

11. Environment Configuration and Deployment

11. Environment Configuration and Deployment

Environ

Setting and resolving environment configurations

Adjusting the database connection

Deploying the hipstr application

Summary

A. Using Korma – a Clojure DSL for SQL

A. Using Korma – a Clojure DSL for SQL

Getting Korma

The Quick Korma Crash Course

Port the models from YeSQL to Korma

Index

Index

Creating a Compojure route

Let's do an example that will allow the awful sounding tech jargon to make sense. We will create an extremely basic route, which will simply print out the original request map to the screen. Let's perform the following steps:

Open the home.clj file.

Alter the home-routes defroute such that it looks like this:

(defroutes home-routes
  (GET "/" [] (home-page))
  (GET "/about" [] (about-page))
  (ANY "/req" request (str request)))

Start the Ring Server if it's not already started.
Navigate to http://localhost:3000/req.
Note
It's possible that your Ring Server will be serving off a port other than 3000. Check the output on lein ring server for the serving port if you're unable to connect to the URL listed in step 4.

You should see something like this:

Creating a Compojure route

Using defroutes

Before we dive too much into the anatomy of the routes, we should speak briefly about what defroutes is. The defroutes macro packages up all of the routes...

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