Book description
Clear, practical Clojure for the professional programmerProfessional Clojure is the experienced developer's guide to functional programming using the Clojure language. Designed specifically to meet the needs of professional developers, this book briefly introduces functional programming before skipping directly to the heart of using Clojure in a real-world setting. The discussion details the read—eval—print workflow that enables fast feedback loops, then dives into enterprise-level Clojure development with expert guidance on web services, testing, datomics, performance, and more. Read from beginning to end, this book serves as a clear, direct guide to Clojure programming—but the comprehensive coverage and detail makes it extraordinarily useful as a quick reference for mid-project snags. The author team includes four professional Clojure developers, ensuring professional-level instruction from a highly practical perspective.
Clojure is an open-source programming language maintained and supported by Cognitect., and quickly gaining use across industries at companies like Amazon, Walmart, Facebook, Netflix, and more. This guide provides a concise, yet thorough resource for professional developers needing to quickly put Clojure to work.
- Parse the difference between functional and object-oriented programming
- Understand Clojure performance and capabilities
- Develop reactive web pages using ClojureScript
- Adopt an REPL-driven development workflow
Clojure is a modern dialect of Lisp, designed for concurrency and Java compatibility. It can be used with the Java virtual machine, Microsoft's Common Language Runtime, and JavaScript engines, providing a level of both versatility and functionality that is appealing to more and more enterprise-level developers. As requirements grow increasingly complex, stepping away from imperative programming can dramatically streamline the development workflow. Professional Clojure provides the expert instruction that gets professionals up to speed and back to work quickly.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Have a Beginner's Mind
- Chapter 2: Rapid Feedback Cycles with Clojure
- Chapter 3: Web Services
- Chapter 4: Testing
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Chapter 5: Reactive Web Pages in ClojureScript
- ClojureScript Is a Big Deal
- A First Brush with ClojureScript
- Reagent in Depth
- Testing Components with Devcards
- Interop with JavaScript
- One Language, One Idiom, Many Platforms
- Things to Know about the Closure Compiler and Library
- Modeling State with DataScript
- Go Routines in Your Browser with core.async
- Summary
- Chapter 6: The Datomic Database
- Chapter 7: Performance
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: Professional Clojure
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2016
- Publisher(s): Wrox
- ISBN: 9781119267270
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