Leiningen Template: Simple Clojure Web Site

A Leiningen template intended for creating new Clojure web site projects utilizing reitit. This resulting project will NOT include any ClojureScript support at all and instead just features simple server-side HTML rendering via Hiccup.

I usually have a personal distinction in my head between "web app" and "web site" where the former typically features significant amounts of front-end Javascript (in other words, is more likely to be developed in a "single page application"-style) while the latter does not, and may not even utilize any Javascript at all.

This Leiningen template is for the latter! Which I feel is a highly under-utilized form of web development today...

This template primarily exists for my own personal use, so some stuff is definitely more oriented towards my own particular preferences regarding setup and organization of a Clojure project.

Usage

$ lein new net.gered/simple-web-site [your-project-name-here]

The resulting project starts up via a main function and during startup expects to be able to read an EDN configuration file located in the current working directory called config.edn.

The project can be run simply by:

$ lein run

A nREPL server will be started which can be connected to on port 7000 (configured via the aforementioned config.edn).

Once running, the web site's root URL should be browsable at http://localhost:8080/ (again, the port can be configured via the aforementioned config.edn).

Other Templates!

I have a few other "simple" Leiningen project templates that are along the same vein as this one:

• Simple Clojure App - Very simple starter base for non-web projects.
• Simple Clojure Web Service - For web services to be consumed by other apps.
• Simple Clojure / ClojureScript Web App - For web apps using Clojure and ClojureScript.

License

Copyright © 2022 Gered King

Distributed under the the MIT License. See LICENSE for more details.