Transit is noticeably faster than EDN. I cannot recommend to use JSON between a clojure backend and a clojurescript application, it's just simply too much work to get everything right, entering dates, big decimals, UUIDs...
/Linus 2015-09-04 18:37 GMT+02:00 Brandon Adams <[email protected]>: > Last time I checked, EDN was slower than JSON browser-side. I don't have any > numbers on that, but it never affected the SPA I wrote and used EDN with. It > was nice being able to send tagged values and sets, which are both things > json doesn't have. > > Have you looked into Transit? It seems to offer a lot of the benefits of EDN > without taking much of a performance hit. It's also a little more portable > across other languages (although you said this doesn't matter right now). > > As far as switching, it's probably just middleware that needs swapping out > and your mimetype that needs to change in cljs-http or cljs-ajax. EDN works > as a superset of JSON using most of the common ring middleware. If you want > to begin taking advantage of EDN features, you won't have to worry about how > to map various record types or custom types into JSON anymore (although you > obviously have to have a tagged reader implementation registered in the > browser to do something with them). > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Jonathon McKitrick <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> I have a basic SPA app using JSON for client/server communication. I'm >> considering switching to EDN. >> >> * Is there any reason I should consider staying with JSON, assuming this >> API will not be consumed elsewhere? >> >> * How complex is the changeover on both client and server sides? >> >> * Are there any other caveats I might want to consider? >> >> -- >> 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 [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojurescript. > > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojurescript. -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojurescript.
