Are you a “not-quite-novice, but not-quite-proficient” Clojure programmer? If so, you might have noticed the relative dearth of good medium-sized projects in the community. You’ve gone through tutorials and watched videos, maybe you’ve even created a few small projects using Clojure, but you feel like you’re still a Java, or Javascript, or Ruby, or Python developer, and you’re using Clojure in a comfortable and familiar way. You don’t want this! You want to program Clojure like a Clojure developer, and one way to achieve this goal is to read and play around with the work of other Clojure programmers.
What you need is medium-sized projects, a big step up from tutorial code, but not so complex to waste a ton of mental effort getting familiar with a large code base, such as most open-source projects.
You need these programs to be written in a Literate style, starting from scratch (a bare repl), which you can read (and evaluate if you so choose). You should not be required to checkout any code, or navigate any directory structure to understand the program, it should be presented more conveniently as a single document.
It might just be that these projects are actually out there, just difficult to discover.
That’s the purpose of this list, to aggregate those types of programs to serve as a stepping-stone for soon-to-be-proficient Clojure programmers.
| Project | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Mondegreen Generator | mjdiloreto | A pure Clojure implementation of a linguistic game |
| Create a blog with Clojure, nbb, and MarkDoc | alexandercarls | Static blog site generated from markdown with code syntax highlighting, comments, RSS feed, and more |
| React prerendering experiments in Clojure(script) land | arthurbarroso | Prerendering React in Clojurescript using graal.js and nbb |
| Marginalia | gdeer81 | Lightweight literate programming for Clojure |
Acceptable projects MUST:
- Be written in a literate style, distributed as a blog post, html page, interactive notebook, org-mode file, or equivalent, not just a github repo
- Be a useful “real-world” program - not just a collection of functions or a library
- Be mediumish. Use your best judgment. A straight read-through of the program and prose together should take the average reader more than a couple minutes and less than a couple hours
To contribute a project, either: A. open an issue with the following information:
- REQUIRED - Project title
- REQUIRED - Link to the program source
- REQUIRED - A short (single sentence) description of the program
- OPTIONAL - author
- OPTIONAL - link to the author’s page
B. open a pull request editing The List with the same information
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