On Sunday, October 19, 2014 12:29:01 PM UTC-7, Colin Yates wrote: > Any advice for a newbie about to embark on a new non-trivial SPA using cljs, > om and (om-)bootstrap. > > I am not a newbie in terms of CSS, JS (coffeescript for the win!) or Clojure > (despite the evidence :)). > > The app itself will live on an internal LAN with a small number of clients, > heavyish logic but low load. It will be heavily influenced by CQRS and event > sourcing, with the server transmitting "domain events since you last checked > in" to the client. > > In particular, what do you wish you had done differently, specifically in > regard to: > - using JS from cljs (which unfortunately still makes my eyes bleed :)) > - integrating 3rd party components (e.g. jquery ui) with om > - unit testing (previously used midge work but I think I will stick with > core.test with the humane plugin) > - cross browser javascript (I assume the google closure library helps here) > - hooking up a browser to the REPL (IE8 unfortunately!) > - web sockets/polling (again IE8) > > I am close to finalising on (but counter-arguments welcome!): > - Cursive clojure (falling back to emacs if necessary - so far it isn't) > - lein-cljsbuild > - garden for CSS (but happy to hear stories around asset management) > - core.typed > - core.test or midje > - transmit for encoding data > > (I have had a look at luminus and it seems great. However, I "get" om > architecturally more than reagent and I have already settled on a number of > other libraries. I have also looked at pedestal but it needs to be deployed > on Windows which they don't support.) > > Anything you wish somebody had told you before you started? > > Thanks a bunch!
Regarding Garden, what are your concerns around asset management? Garden supports :preamble much like ClojureScript so you're able to include other flat CSS files and has built-in minification. There are several other nice features such as automatic prefixing as well. I won't deny that Sass has much better library support than Garden (because virtually no one is sharing them) but on the flip-side you're exchanging, as I mention in the README, a _preprocessor_ for a _programming language_. Although Garden is still young it's extraordinarily powerful but if you're not a serious CSS author this power may not be useful to you. Garden is also capable of being used both from Clojure and ClojureScript which can be a "nice to have". We use Garden in production at Outpace and Prismatic also uses it for their stylesheets as well. Anyway, this is just my opinion. -- Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ClojureScript" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojurescript+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to clojurescript@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojurescript.
