Last week, I was quite happy to attend (:brno Clojure) meetup. There were only five people including me. Nevertheless, we had a great time and covered a lot of topics. There was no main theme, just live free and spontaneous discussion about our experience with Clojure. We discussed following topics:
- server-side template duct
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- easy-to-use template for getting started with Clojure web
applications - how is it different from chestnut?
- easy-to-use template for getting started with Clojure web
- liskasys
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- Karel Miarka’s own project
- Uses Datomic
- Emacs/Spacemacs vs. Cursive
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- Spacemacs has lots of preconfigured plugins => easier to use
than plain Emacs
- Spacemacs has lots of preconfigured plugins => easier to use
- Korma SQL
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- macro magic
- consider using something else (Honey SQL, plain clojure.java.jdbc, …)
- Check https://yogthos.net/posts/2016-02-22-LuminusEmbracingHugSQL.html
- “Specs” for re-frame application state db
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- It can be better to not enforce using spec for app-db because the additional value is not so high and it can lead to tedious updates of spec whenever you add something to app-db
- Usefulness of namespaced keywords
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- avoid conflicts: same keywords in different namespaces
- Pitfalls of debugging CLJS
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- unclear error messages
- hard to find root cause
- Logging
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- log whole Clojure data structure instead of standard log
lines? -
- you can then process logs with clojure (search, filter, …)
- log whole Clojure data structure instead of standard log
- Using Ansible for automatic deployment
- Component reloaded workflow
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- figwheel-like experience on backend
- Figwheel
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- re-load on save vs. reload explicitly (triggered by keyboard shortcut)
- explicit reload gives us a better control
- Ideas for next meetups
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- Applications / System showcases
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- demonstrate the apps we are working on
- discussion, best practices
- Coding dojo – we can work together on 4clojure problems or similar
- Invite Pavel Tisnovsky
to Brno Clojure meetup
I’m really looking forward to the next Brno Clojure meetup.
I’d be love to see more people there as well.
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