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Clojuring the web application stack: Meditation One
In a land bereft of a canonical "killer app" web framework or two, one must think about the what, why, how, where of all the moving parts. Out here, one must become a student of web framework architecture in addition to web application architecture. For here, in Clojure-land, the two are one. ☯
However, unlike object oriented frameworks that are fully integrated monolithic systems, these are open-ended sets of libraries that represent the project developer's opinion of how to build web applications. As a thought experiment, I feel a Rails developer will find it easy to make sense of a Django or Laravel project, versus any of the apps built with tools we have in the Clojure ecosystem. Thus, a competent Rails developer parachuting into a Django project can reasonably expect to follow their nose down familiar-feeling Class hierarchies and method chains, across familiar Model, View, Controller structures.
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