What You’ve Learned

OK, that’s the whirlwind tour. By this point you should be getting a feel for developing web applications with Clojure. And you should be comfortable with some of the Clojure basics. You saw how to use the Leiningen tool to create and manage an application. You learned about HTTP routing and some basic HTML templating. While we didn’t explore many aspects of the skeleton application that was generated for us, you saw how the basic request life cycle is handled.

We’ll be diving deeper and writing more code in upcoming chapters. If you aren’t already, I encourage you to start using one of the popular Clojure-aware editors, such as Light Table, Emacs, Cursive, or Counterclockwise.

In the next chapter we’ll delve into the ...

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