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title = "Web Development with Clojure: Build Bulletproof Web Apps with Less Code - Dmitri Sotnikov"
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date = 2017-06-22
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["books", "dmitri sotnikov", "reviews", "clojure", "web development",
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"it", "2 stars"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18399028-web-development-with-clojure):
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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.
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{{ stars(stars=2) }}
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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.
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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.
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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 **should** be tested along
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all the other tests.
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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 **not** how a REST server works.
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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.
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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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such task.
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