Creating Application Templates
Once we create a particular type of application, such as our picture-gallery app, we may want to write other similar applications that use the same structure. It would be nice to be able to create a skeleton application template that could be used for this task. This is precisely what we can do by creating Leiningen templates.
Throughout this book we’ve been using the compojure-app template when we created new projects. Here we’ll cover how this template works and how to make templates of our own.[64]
Leiningen uses the lein-newnew plug-in for template creation. To create a new template we merely have to run lein new template <template name>.[65]
Let’s look inside the compojure-app template project to see ...
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