All Episodes

Generative testing, also called Property Based testing, is a powerful technique able to expose some of the most obscure bugs. You’ll learn how to create and compose generators, and how to define properties that together can verify many aspects of your code.

Learn how to use a headless web browser to test your application for feature completeness. You’ll also see how Component can be used to set up an isolated test environment, how to use fixtures and dynamic var bindings to share setup code between tests, and how to keep tests readable and concise by judicously pulling code into helper functions.

Learn how to incorporate Component in a real world project. This episode is a bit of grab bag. It shows how to set up a -main function and how to use it, how to use reloaded.repl and tools.namespace for a better REPL workflow. You get introduced to the Suspendable protocol that complements Component’s Lifecycle protocol. Finally it shows how to streamline your configuration with Aero.

Now that the “birch” command is working, it’s time to release it to the world. In this episode you’ll learn how to turn your Lumo script into an NPM package. You’ll also learn how to use packages from NPM (cli-colors) and Clojure library jars (tools.cli) to make your script even more awesome.

Buddy is a popular security library for implementing authentication and authorization. In this episode you’ll learn what the difference is, and how to implement password based authentication for a simple Ring app.

In this beginner friendly episode you’ll learn how to resolve a common type of Clojure error. It walks you through the process step by step, from analyzing the error, investigating the cause, coming up with a solution, up to finally reporting the issue on Github. In the process you’ll learn how to interpret stack traces, how to inspect the dependency tree with Leiningen, and how to influence Leiningen’s choice of version in case of a conflict.

Stuart Sierra’s Component is a small library that can have a big impact on the structure and architecture of your application. In this episode you learn how you can use it to create components, and manage dependencies. You will create a Jetty and an Endpoint component, and use the PostgreSQL component from the System project.

Side effects in re-frame are handled through events. You’ll implement several event handlers of a TodoMVC app so it becomes functional. You’ll also implement custom effect and co-effect handlers for storing the application state in localStorage. To debug event handlers you’ll learn about the “debug” interceptor, and about re-frisk, a handy tool for inspecting your re-frame database.

Seqs are a key abstraction in how Clojure processes data, but what exactly is a “seq”, and how does it relate to “seqable?”. Time for a deep dive in Clojure and ClojureScript source code to discover the finer points. Learn exactly what seqs and seqables are, what they do, and how you can use them to your advantage.

Compojure is one of the more popular routing libraries for Ring. It’s easy to pick up, and gives you a great foundation to further explore Clojure web development.

A complete look at re-frame subscriptions, including coverage of Reagent’s atoms and reactions. You learn how to write subscriptions, how they work, and how to plug them together into a signal graph.

Reagent is a popular and easy to use option for using React with ClojureScript. re-frame builds on top of Reagent, providing an elegant and opinionated way to structure applications and deal with application state. The documentation for re-frame can easily overwhelm. With this episode you get a practical hands-on introduction, so you can be making your own apps in no time.

One of the benefits of ClojureScript is that it lets you leverage the great JavaScript ecosystem. Using arbitrary JS libraries isn’t always trivial though, and a lot of head scratching can ensue. In this episode you’ll learn the exact steps from here to success, and you’ll gain insight into ClojureScript’s build process, so you can tackle any challenge that comes your way.

We add GET, PUT, DELETE operations to the contact book API. In the process we pull out the EDN handling into its own middleware, and come across some handy Regex tips. This third episode picks up the pace a bit, but by now that shouldn’t be a problem.

In this second installment of our beginner friendly introduction to Ring the API goes from being read-only to being read-write. You also learn about juxt, slurp, and how to parse an incoming request body.

By using Figwheel with CIDER you get both a Clojure and a ClojureScript REPL at the same time, and you get all the nice features of CIDER. It’s a more complex setup than just straight inf-clojure, so before we get there we need to talk a bit about nREPL and Piggieback, tooling you should be familiar with, no matter which editor you are using.

Learn how to integrate Figwheel’s browser connected REPL into Emacs, for an ever greater degree of interactive development, using inf-clojure-mode.

In this new series you’ll build an API with Ring from the ground up. The pace is slow and no steps are skipped, making it a great lesson for beginners.

Clojure’s variable argument functions combined with map destructuring results in a concise syntax for keyword arguments. We’ll pick this feature apart to see exactly what’s inside. You’ll learn about “mapply”, and learn why keyword arguments aren’t always the best solution.

Learn about React performance, the use of keys properties, and how to use lifecycle methods with Reagent.

We continue building a Kanban board with Reagent, adding functionality to edit cards. In the process you’ll learn all about Reagent’s cursors and event handlers.

One of the more popular wrapper libraries for using React with ClojureScript is Reagent. We’ll build a kanban style board to demonstrate the main features.

To be effective at programming, you have to understand your tools. In this episode we’ll peel a few layers away, and use the ClojureScript compiler without any help from Leiningen, Cljsbuild or Figwheel. You’ll learn about compiler options, levels of optimization, the role of the Google Closure Library, and how to confgure the compiler for development and production use.

The spec library which will be included in Clojure 1.9 gives you a powerful mechanism for validating data. Find out how to use it in this episode.

In this closing episode of the Luminus introduction, you’ll learn how to extend the template language with custom filters, and how to generate HTML components in code using Hiccup.

In this episode we’ll go over all the tools ClojureScript puts at your disposal to interoperate with JavaScript. You’ll learn how to call JavaScript libraries, how to work with JavaScript datatypes, how to convert data back and forth, and how to use “this”.

We continue our journey through Luminus by building a wiki. In this episode you’ll learn how to create the form to edit pages, and handle creating new page revisions. We’ll also come across Cross Site Request Forgery, and learn how to prevent it.

To give you a starting point for building your own app, we’ll go through the process of building an application from scratch with Luminus. In this first part in a series of three, you’ll learn to set up the database, write migrations to create tables with Migratus, create SQL queries with HugSQL, and tie it all together with Compojure routes and Selmer templates.

Clojure’s some function is surprisingly versatile. Find out what it does, and what you can do with it.