Web Development with Clojure

A Functional Perspective

Clojure is a functional language. This makes it extremely well positioned for writing modern applications. As the application grows it’s imperative to be able to reason about parts of the application in isolation. It’s equally important to have code that is testable and reusable.

Managing State

Functional languages are ideal for writing large applications because they eschew global state and favor immutability as the default. When the data is predominantly immutable we can easily reason about parts of the application in isolation.

Immutable data structures might sound like a strange idea at first. However, many of the benefits associated with functional languages are directly facilitated by them. Let’s look at what ...