Clojure: Essential Libs for Web App

By Xah Lee. Date: 2014-11-18. Last updated: 2016-03-31.

here's sample of clojure libraries. They are dependencies of the gorilla-repl. 〔see Clojure: Interactive Notebook. gorilla-repl〕

Libs for Server

ring: Essential web app lib. Abstraction of HTTP. Like python's WSGI and Ruby's Rack. https://github.com/ring-clojure/ring
http-kit: Ring-compatible minimal HTTP client and server. http://http-kit.org/
ring-json: Standard Ring middleware functions for JSON requests/responses https://github.com/ring-clojure/ring-json
Compojure: Routing lib for Ring that allows web applications to be composed of small, independent parts. https://github.com/weavejester/compojure

Hiccup: HTML in Clojure syntax. It uses vectors to represent elements, and maps to represent a element's attributes. https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup
cheshire: JSON encode/decode. https://github.com/dakrone/cheshire

nrepl: clojure network repl. Eval clojure code over network. https://github.com/clojure/tools.nrepl

Carmine: A Clojure Redis client and message queue https://github.com/ptaoussanis/carmine

Reagent: Minimalistic React for ClojureScript http://reagent-project.github.io/

clj-semver: version string parser, for example, parse “3.12.2”. https://github.com/grimradical/clj-semver

cider: emacs integration https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider-nrepl 〔see Emacs: Clojure CIDER Tutorial〕
Clojure-complete: is an symbol completion library for Clojure https://github.com/ninjudd/clojure-complete

not sure about the following. Leaving them here for now.

Simple Logging Facade for Java (SLF4J): The Simple Logging Facade for Java (SLF4J) serves as a simple facade or abstraction for various logging frameworks (e.g. java.util.logging, logback, log4j) allowing the end user to plug in the desired logging framework at deployment time. http://www.slf4j.org/