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Learning ClojureScript

By : W. David Jarvis, Allen Rohner
Book Image

Learning ClojureScript

By: W. David Jarvis, Allen Rohner

Overview of this book

Clojure is an expressive language that makes it possible to easily tackle complex software development challenges. Its bias toward interactive development has made it a powerful tool, enabling high developer productivity. In this book, you will first learn how to construct an interactive development experience for ClojureScript.. You will be guided through ClojureScript language concepts, looking at the basics first, then being introduced to advanced concepts such as functional programming or macro writing. After that, we elaborate on the subject of single page web applications, showcasing how to build a simple one, then covering different possible enhancements. We move on to study more advanced ClojureScript concepts, where you will be shown how to address some complex algorithmic cases. Finally, you'll learn about optional type-checking for your programs, how you can write portable code, test it, and put the advanced compilation mode of the Google Closure Compiler to good use.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Learning ClojureScript
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Chapter 6. Building Richer Web Applications

In the last chapter, we saw what Single Page Applications (SPAs) are and took a deep dive into learning little details about them. SPAs are, as the name suggests, developed to contain a single page. This page is then refreshed and new content is loaded dynamically, based on the users clicks, using AJAX and HTML5.

In this chapter, we'll cover a few advanced techniques for SPAs. We'll cover the following:

  • Real-time communication with websockets

  • Improving load times with CLJS modules

  • Server-side rendering