Hi everyone

I am a rather unexperienced Clojure user, so please bear with me.

I am developing a web app using popular libraries such as ring, compojure, 
liberator and friend to handle routing, content negotiation and 
authentication. There is quite a lot of map manipulation going on with the 
request and response maps. To me, as an unexperienced Clojure user, the 
content of these maps is not very transparent as I code. What I am trying 
to say is that I find it difficult to know exactly what to expect from 
these libraries and many other, unless, of course, I read and understand 
their source. That is a challenge in its own right for a less advanced 
programmer such as myself.

I am using various Emacs packages for productivity (see below), and while 
they are very helpful, the code is still not as transparent to me as a 
strongly typed language, where the IDE shows you exactly what type of data 
a function returns. Part of the problem is probably that I am only using a 
fraction of the functionality that these plugins provide or don't use the 
functionality properly:

   - clojure-mode
   - cider
   - paredit
   - rainbow-delimiters
   - rainbow-mode
   - eldoc
   - web-mode
   - clj-refactor

Questions: 
Based on the above, could you perhaps suggest any functionality in these or 
other packages, which could make the interaction (in lack of a better word) 
with other libraries more transparent to me?

Also, can you tell me if it is possible to debug a running Clojure web app 
with Ciders debugging feature, or something similar (with break points 
etc.)? So far I have only been able to use Ciders debugging feature on code 
running in my local REPL. Therefore, since I am developing a web app, I 
need to call my functions with mock requests.

Best regards
ahawk   

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