Ask HN: How to pick up Clojure for web dev? (coming from RoR background)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10959692

by conqrr • 11 years ago

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Whats the equivalent of Mhartl's tutorial for clojure?

samridh90• 11 years ago

There's a really good step-by-step introduction to Clojure here: https://aphyr.com/tags/Clojure-from-the-ground-up. From there, you could check out Ring (https://github.com/ring-clojure/ring) which is a Clojure based web application library inspired by RoR/Python WSGI.

sova• 10 years ago

Yeah, Ring is where it's at.

johnny_utah• 11 years ago

Before getting into web dev with Clojure, I recommend reading and doing the exercises from Clojure for the Brave and True to learn the language itself. It is one of the most engaging technical books I have come across in some time. http://www.braveclojure.com/

After that, I would go to the clojure docs to get started with web dev in clojure: http://clojure-doc.org/articles/tutorials/basic_web_developm... The luminus framework has a good tutorial to get started as well: http://www.luminusweb.net/docs

Caveat: I do not code clojure as part of my day job.

zura3• 11 years ago

Looking at ToC, the odd thing about Clojure for the Brave and True is that the very last chapter is:

Chapter 13: Creating and Extending Abstractions with Multimethods, Protocols, and Records

... This chapter serves as an introduction to the world of creating and implementing your own abstractions.

Wouldn't it make more sense to introduce tools for creating your abstractions at least in the first part of the book?

bgar• 11 years ago

No because the topics in that chapter are advanced.

147• 11 years ago

There really isn't an equivalent to Mhartl's tutorial for clojure, mostly because there aren't really web frameworks in Clojure. I went from Rails to Clojure a few years back, it was a rough transition because I was used to having a framework do everything for me and in Clojure you have to pick your own libraries and compose them.

DrScump• 11 years ago

You might try looking at this other thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10959523

zubairq• 11 years ago

You could also try something like AppShare made by someone with a Ruby On Rails background:

https://github.com/zubairq/AppShare#the-long-story-of-appsha...

jarcane• 11 years ago

I will be starting on a tutorial project soon for my employers, developing an API and frontend client in Clojure with compojure-api for backend, and ClojureScript + reagent for the front-end, with possible fun diversions into Raspberry Pi support and even mobile apps if I can puzzle my way through the still early React Native support for ClojureScript.

In the meantime, for the basics, I started with the Koans. http://clojurekoans.com/ I found them a largely excellent way to get up to speed with the language by doing some actual coding.

GetContented• 10 years ago

There's a really good book:

https://pragprog.com/book/dswdcloj/web-development-with-cloj...

It goes over most of the things you would want to know. Plus, yeah, Luminus.

Ask HN: How to pick up Clojure for web dev? (coming from RoR background)

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