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
• • easy-to-use template for getting started with Clojure web
    applications
  • how is it different from chestnut?
• liskasys
• • Karel Miarka’s own project
  • Uses Datomic
• Emacs/Spacemacs vs. Cursive
• • Spacemacs has lots of preconfigured plugins => easier to use
    than plain Emacs
• Korma SQL
• • 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
• • 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
• • avoid conflicts: same keywords in different namespaces
• Pitfalls of debugging CLJS
• • unclear error messages
  • hard to find root cause
• Logging
• • log whole Clojure data structure instead of standard log
    lines?
  • • you can then process logs with clojure (search, filter, …)
• Using Ansible for automatic deployment
• Component reloaded workflow
• • figwheel-like experience on backend
• Figwheel
• • re-load on save vs. reload explicitly (triggered by keyboard shortcut)
  • explicit reload gives us a better control
• Ideas for next meetups
• • Applications / System showcases
  • • 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.