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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">Web Development with Clojure: Build Bulletproof Web Apps with Less Code - Dmitri Sotnikov</h1>
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2017-06-22
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/dmitri-sotnikov/">#dmitri sotnikov</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/web-development/">#web development</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/published-2013/">#published:2013</a>
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18399028-web-development-with-clojure">GoodReads Summary</a>:
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Modern web development needs modern tools. Web Development With Clojure shows
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you how to apply Clojure programming fundamentals to build real-world
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solutions. You'll develop all the pieces of a full web application in this
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powerful language. If you already have some familiarity with Clojure, you'll
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learn how to put it to serious practical use. If you're new to the language,
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the book provides just enough Clojure to get down to business.</p>
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★★☆☆☆
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<p>First of all, this book suffers from the same mistakes every single Lisp-like
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language book I've read: They throw a truck at you, then slowly, while you're
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being crushed by it, explain each part that creates a truck -- In other words,
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they throw a large piece of code at you and then slowly explain each part of
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it.</p>
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<p>Even worst, in the last parts, it's basically "here is truck, take it" -- very
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little explanation about the code itself, just "we'll do this" and code. What
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the pieces of code mean, that's entirely to you.</p>
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<p>Another problem: no tests. The author prefers the REPL approach, which is okay
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for little projects, but for projects that should last longer than a weekend
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project. No only that, but even the tests are wrong, because it mocks the
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database -- Database is part of your project so it <strong>should</strong> be tested along
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all the other tests.</p>
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<p>And, on top of that, there is a REST server with sessions, and a lot of code
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just to keep the frontend session in sync with the server session. That's
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actually <strong>not</strong> how a REST server works.</p>
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<p>And while I usually don't comment the technology behind the book (because it's
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not the author's creation), I really have to ask if Clojure is the right tool
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for web servers. I mean, a lot about Clojure is about immutability and a lot
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about the shown code is forcing mutability -- one function even is composed
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with nothing but functions that force mutability.</p>
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<p>So, not only the book itself doesn't give a clear picture about web
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development in Clojure, the language itself doesn't appear appropriate for
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