Intro to Web Development with Compojure

Compojure is a web framework, inspired by Sinatra and implemented in Clojure. In this session, you will learn:

  • Why functional languages are a good fit for web development. (It's simple, really: a web endpoint is a function of URLs, headers, bodies, and sessions. Everything else is noise and distraction.)
  • How function composition simplifies adding services. Compojure middlewares are simply functions that can wrap existing functions to add additional services.
  • The usual suspects: APIs for dealing with headers, bodies, sessions, cookies, etc.
  • How Compojure is embedded in traditional Java servlet environments: “It's just a jar!”
  • A variety of approaches to rendering views: JSP-like templating, using Clojure data structures as a natural DSL, and using the functional Enlive library.
  • Integrating with data stores, both relational and NoSQL.

The examples will include hands-on exercises that you can take home.


Stuart Halloway

About Stuart Halloway

Stuart Halloway is a founder and President of Cognitect, Inc. (www.cognitect.com). He is a Clojure committer, and a developer of the Datomic database.

Stuart has spoken at a variety of industry events, including StrangeLoop, Clojure/conj, EuroClojure, ClojureWest, SpeakerConf, QCon, GOTO, OSCON, RailsConf, RubyConf, JavaOne, and NFJS.

Stuart has written a number of books and technical articles. Of these, he is most proud of Programming Clojure.

Learn more about Stu's presentations on his wiki.

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