If you are starting a new project:
lein new causeway project-name
cd project-name
lein run migrate
lein ring serverIf you want to use causeway in an already existing project, add this to leiningen dependencies:
[causeway "0.4.0"]Simple library for rapid web development with Clojure - designed with the following qualities in mind:
- low interdependence - you should be able to take any one feature of this library and use it separately; or replace it with some other component. For instance, if you like hiccup, feel free to use it instead of the build in templating library.
- composability - you should be able to easily add or replace any parts of the web stack. For instance you prefer SASS over LESS? Let's disable LESS and enable SASS.
- flexibility - it is easy to change the project structure. If you generated a project from the template, enabling or disabling some feature should be as easy as commenting out a line of code (this is what I don't like about Luminus)
- performance - all the compiled assets and are cached (using soft references, so memory limit is no issue) in production (unless you disable that)
- simple code - if a feature takes more than 200 LoC, it should be decomposed into smaller parts.
Among others, it includes the following features:
- Assets and resources structure
- Caching and serving of compiled web assets (right now LESSCSS, CoffeeScript and minimizers are supported, thanks to wro4j, but create an issue if you need any other)
- Templates inspired by PHP's twig, Django's Templates and finally Clojure's clabango
- L10n, i18n and AB-testing supported through:
** variant resources (templates, compiled and static resources)
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(loc "some string")macro - Project configuration: ** bootconfig: the most basic config (db address, server port, runtime mode, etc...) is in a file (the path is configurable through leiningen profiles) ** properties: properties work almost like vars, but are saved in the database (currently only MongoDB is supported) and persist between server resets. Admin panel to edit the properties is included.
- Forms support: ** composable and simple to use form validation ** simple forms HTML generation (compatibile with validation)
coming soon:
- separation of all the features into smaller packages
- basic login support
- database support (PostgreSQL and MongoDB)
- more examples and docs
- basic CSS and JS libraries (like Twitter Bootstrap and jQuery)
Copyright © 2013 Marcin Skotniczny
Distributed under the Eclipse Public License, the same as Clojure.