A website for blogging doesn't need to be a complex content management system, a simple and lightweight static website generator can create engaging websites that are easy to manage with Git.
Cryogen is a static site generator written in Clojure, allowing content to be written in either markdown or asciidoc. Posts and pages are configured with Clojure hash-maps to manage the meta-data and layout information for each, including .
Cryogen seems very quick to generate a site and a local server can be run to automatically generate an updated website when changes to posts and pages are saved.
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Clojure CLI tools is a relatively new approach to creating an managing projects. The Edge project from JUXT takes the approach and extends it with its own features, such as being able to update projects created from the edge configuration.
Unlike Leiningen and Boot templates which are one of tasks, you can update a project you created a while ago with Edge and bring it up to date. It will be interesting to try this out in future articles.
Continue reading →There are a number of tools from the Clojure community which add build tool features to the Clojure CLI tools. This enables developers to have a very lightweight and customisable set of tools that just do what they need.
This article just covers the very basics of each tool, see each projects documentation to get the full benefit of each tool.
- depot finds newer versions of libraries (from Clojars and Git repositories)
- kaocha full featured next gen Clojure test runner
- depstar to package up your application for the JVM platform
We are going to try out the different command line options available as we continue our journey into the Clojure CLI tools..
We explore the different ways to running Clojure code, from a single expression to a full project. We include examples of aliases for optional configuration and combining aliases to create specific configurations when running a project. Finally we will see how to diagnose a project and understand potential sources of conflicts.
Continue reading →Newer content can be found in Using Clojure tools section of Practicalli Clojure
CLI tools make Clojure very accessible and simple to install as they are a essentially a wrapper for running Clojure code using the java command and use additional libraries to manage dependencies, class paths, create projects and build java archive (jar) files.
Newer content can be found in Using Clojure tools section of Practicalli Clojure
Its quite common to use the java command to run your code in production, usually defined in a shell script. Leiningen can be used to run your application in production too, however, because Leiningen creates 2 JVM instances (one for itself and one for the application), its more efficient to just use the java command.