Book description
“There’s something for everyone here. . . . You can pick up and read this book and build an industry-standard system in a weekend: It has everything you need to get started with a new project. I also found it helpful in reviewing the structure of existing projects.” —Timothy Pratley, developer
Developers are discovering the exceptional power of Clojure’s functional programming model to quickly solve problems in domains ranging from social networking to Big Data. Clojure is fast and efficient—ideal for rapid prototyping and lean development. And it is highly expressive and extremely extensible, which makes Clojure one of today’s leading tools for software innovation. Since it targets the Java Virtual Machine, Clojure also leverages the Java platform’s maturity and enormous ecosystem.
Clojure Recipes is a wide-ranging, up-to-date “code recipe book” for this increasingly popular language. With practical and self-contained examples, author Julian Gamble illuminates Clojure’s key features and best practices, showing how to solve real-world problems one step at a time. Focusing on Clojure 1.7 and higher, Gamble fully reflects recent enhancements that ensure you’re getting the most up-to-date code for your project.
Gamble first walks you through the essential steps required to set up your Clojure development environment, from setting up the Leiningen build tool to packaging Clojure for Java EE environments. He then shows you how to build both basic and advanced REST servers, before turning to a wide range of increasingly sophisticated applications.
In this book you will find
Innovative Clojure code for diverse web, security, administration, and development tasks, from log reading and app monitoring to software testing
Detailed instructions for using concurrency primitives, writing new DSLs, simplifying cloud database development, and more
“Learn by doing” projects, which offer practical experience with Clojurescript, Storm, Pedestal, Datomic, and other advanced tools
Coverage of using Clojure with Cascalog 2.0 to write complex Hadoop queries with minimal code
The breadth and quality of Gamble’s examples make Clojure Recipes uniquely valuable both to developers who are exploring Clojure for the first time and to those already using it in production.
Table of contents
- About This eBook
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Preface
- About the Author
- 1. Starting Your Project with Leiningen
- 2. Packaging Clojure for a Java EE Environment
- 3. Creating a REST Server in Compojure
- 4. Creating a REST Server with Liberator
- 5. A REST Client in ClojureScript
- 6. A Simple JSON Server
- 7. A Simple Server Using the Pedestal Framework
- 8. A Stock Ticker on the Pedestal Framework Server
- 9. Simplifying Logging with a Macro
- 10. Extending the Compiler with a Macro
- 11. Simplifying Datomic Syntax by Writing a DSL
- 12. Reading the SASS DSL and Generating CSS with Clojure Zippers
- 13. Introduction to Cascalog
- 14. Cascalog and Hadoop
- 15. Loading a Data File into Cascalog
- 16. Writing Out a Data File with Cascalog
- 17. Cascalog and Structured Data
- 18. Loading Custom Data Formats into Cascalog
- 19. Connecting to Datomic from Your Application
- 20. Getting Started with Storm
- 21. Getting Started with JMS in Clojure
- 22. Integrating Storm and JMS
- 23. A CSV Reader
- 24. Detecting Errors with a Log Monitoring Application
- 25. Bundling Clojure as an Ant Plug-in
- 26. Bundling Clojure as a Maven Plug-in
- 27. Integrating Clojure by Scripting Web Tests
- 28. Monitoring Availability with a Website Status Checker
- A. Debugging Macros
- Index
- Code Snippets
Product information
- Title: Clojure Recipes
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2015
- Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
- ISBN: 9780133430097
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