compojure – Tarik Billa

Serve index.html at / by default in Compojure

September 24, 2023 by Tarik

An alternative could be to create either a redirect or a direct response in an additional route. Like so: (ns compj-test.core (:use [compojure.core]) (:require [compojure.route :as route] [ring.util.response :as resp])) (defroutes main-routes (GET “https://stackoverflow.com/” [] (resp/file-response “index.html” {:root “public”})) (GET “/a” [] (resp/resource-response “index.html” {:root “public”})) (route/resources “https://stackoverflow.com/”) (route/not-found “Page not found”)) The “https://stackoverflow.com/” route … Read more

Compojure development without web server restarts

August 28, 2023 by Tarik

This is quite an old question, and there have been some recent changes that make this much easier. There are two main things that you want: Control should return to the REPL so you can keep interacting with your server. This is accomplished by adding {:join? false} to options when starting the Jetty server. You’d … Read more

Compojure routes with different middleware

July 26, 2023 by Tarik

(defroutes user-routes* (GET “-endpoint1” [] (“USER ENDPOINT 1”)) (GET “-endpoint2” [] (“USER ENDPOINT 1”))) (def user-routes (-> #’user-routes* (wrap-basic-authentication user-auth?))) (defroutes admin-routes* (GET “-endpoint” [] (“ADMIN ENDPOINT”))) (def admin-routes (-> #’admin-routes* (wrap-basic-authentication admin-auth?))) (defroutes main-routes (ANY “*” [] admin-routes) (ANY “*” [] user-routes) This will run the incoming request first through admin-routes and then through … Read more

How To Integrate Clojure Web Applications in Apache

April 13, 2023 by Tarik

I use a combination of the following to make this fairly painless: Cake (incl. the deploy command) A Cake template for webprojects developed by Lau Jensen. Vagrant (Ruby VM(Virtualbox) management tool, which relies on Chef or Puppet) VPS (from Slicehost) The key part is the webdev template that Lau made. The webdev folder should be … Read more

What’s the “big idea” behind compojure routes?

December 26, 2022 by Tarik

Compojure explained (to some degree) NB. I am working with Compojure 0.4.1 (here’s the 0.4.1 release commit on GitHub). Why? At the very top of compojure/core.clj, there’s this helpful summary of Compojure’s purpose: A concise syntax for generating Ring handlers. On a superficial level, that’s all there is to the “why” question. To go a … Read more