A deep dive into ClojureScript reagent
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A deep dive into ClojureScript reagent
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#2I used Reagent for a fairly significant frontend project last year. It was a real joy to work with. The maintainer, yogthos, is very responsive to feedback and is doing a great job shepherding the project. I'm looking forward to the opportunity to use it again soon. Simplicity at its finest.
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#3I used Reagent for a fairly significant frontend project last year. It was a real joy to work with. The maintainer, yogthos, is very responsive to feedback and is doing a great job shepherding the project. I'm looking forward to the opportunity to use it again soon. Simplicity at its finest.
I have a similar experience, though I never had the chance to build anything really large with it.
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#4I tried looking into reagent just two days ago. Couldn't be more timely.
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#5I'm the author of the klipse[1] plugin. Timothy impressed me with the quality of his klipse interactive snippets in this mind-blowing article.
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#6As a very nice complement to reagent, I'd also like to mention re-frame: A Reagent Framework For Writing SPAs, in Clojurescript.
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#7if I may ask a dumb question : do experienced javascript programmers become more or less productive when they switch to Clojurescript or ELM or other js transpiling languages ?
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#8if I may ask a dumb question : do experienced javascript programmers become more or less productive when they switch to Clojurescript or ELM or other js transpiling languages ?
I suspect that in the short term the answer would be no, because of the initial learning curve. In the long run I think that it depends on the kind of project they are working on. Something like clojurescript would be a bit of heavyweight solution for really simple javascript enhancements. I suspect that productivity improvements of learning a transpiled language are similar to the improvements of learning a new javascript framework like React or Angular. They offer a learning curve in exchange eventually for a simplified programming model.
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#9if I may ask a dumb question : do experienced javascript programmers become more or less productive when they switch to Clojurescript or ELM or other js transpiling languages ?
I think it depends on what your expectations are as well as what you are willing to put into learning them. Both Clojurescript and Elm have their place.
Elm is very nice but definitely has a learning curve. You can try Elm in a low impact way by making a small component with it and using it alongside either React or Angular ( or in other scenarios as well ). It can also work as a state management solution for parts of your front end app. On the other hand building an entire SPA in Elm is a monumental task and requires significant investment. As the Elm experts say Elm is not really a good solution for quick one offs or prototyping. It may require you to reinvent the wheel for many widgets for which you could find relatively high quality open source options in React or Angular. Also, Elms JS interop is a bit tedious at times but works relatively well.
Clojurescript has been around longer then Elm and for most has less of a learning curve, but for some the JVM tooling may be a turn off. Nonetheless it is fun to use and there are several Clojurescript UI libraries (Rum, Reagent, Om, Hoplon/Javelin) all of which are used in production at various places.
I would say for an experienced javascript developer there is something to gain by delving into either Elm or Clojurescript and though both are very different the strong functional emphasis of both imparts habits of code organization and thinking that you might not develop as easily by staying in pure Javascript territory.
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#10As a very nice complement to reagent, I'd also like to mention re-frame: A Reagent Framework For Writing SPAs, in Clojurescript. https://github.com/Day8/re-frame
Shameless plug for my attempt to build a smallish SPA in Reagent, Re-frame: https://rahulpilani.github.io/mortgage-calculator/
Code here: https://github.com/rahulpilani/mort-calc