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Clojure Grimoire: an up-to-date ClojureDocs alternative

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Re: Clojure Grimoire: an up-to-date ClojureDocs alternative

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This is really awesome, thanks for building it. I was just working on a toy clojurescript project yesterday and while clojuredocs is very useful it's sad it hasn't been updated in forever. I've found examples to be incredibly helpful in composing functional-style code. For instance, compare assoc: http://clojure.github.io/clojure/clojure.core-api.html#cloju... and http://grimoire.arrdem.com/1.6.0/clojure.core/assoc/…

Author here. After maintaining a blog built around a "real" CMS, and a "real" CMS that I built myself, I'll say that my existing blog is built atop Jekyll and Git, the same stack I chose for Grimoire. It's simply the most basic thing that could possibly work, and it doesn't demand that I run a JVM on my inexpensive DigitalOcean instance. For all that I enjoy using Clojure, a "real" Ring server with a "real" database…

I definitely wasn't trying to say this project would be better served by a "real" CMS, just that I'd like to see how someone would put one together. I've heard the idea of your second paragraph repeated in a bunch of places, and it speaks to me on an intellectual level, but I'd like to read through examples of non-trivial apps to put it in concrete terms.

About dash - presumably users will want your content inside whatever editing environment they have going (I know I do!). I find myself jumping between the built-in Emacs thing for clojure (shows function signatures in the minibuffer, let's you jump to official docs and source in other buffers) and dash for ruby (pretty html rendering, loads all my library docs).

Re: Clojure Grimoire: an up-to-date ClojureDocs alternative

#22
post #17

This is really awesome, thanks for building it. I was just working on a toy clojurescript project yesterday and while clojuredocs is very useful it's sad it hasn't been updated in forever. I've found examples to be incredibly helpful in composing functional-style code. For instance, compare assoc: http://clojure.github.io/clojure/clojure.core-api.html#cloju... and http://grimoire.arrdem.com/1.6.0/clojure.core/assoc/…

I'd love to help with building a backend, if the author or someone else decides to go that way. Just recently finished rewriting my blog in Clojure, complete with csrf protection, db, sessions, and a bunch of shinies as well.

I'd love to read a blog post about your experience writing that, and to see the code!

Re: Clojure Grimoire: an up-to-date ClojureDocs alternative

#23
post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd love to help with building a backend, if the author or someone else decides to go that way. Just recently finished rewriting my blog in Clojure, complete with csrf protection, db, sessions, and a bunch of shinies as well.

I'd love to read a blog post about your experience writing that, and to see the code!

Oh shucks, now I will just have to finish the blog post and publish it. Thanks!
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