I'd like to announce a new URI routing library called bidi. If you're planning to write HTTP/web applications in Clojure in 2014, chances are you'll be including hyperlinks (URIs) in your pages/views/templates. After all, this is what the web is all about. But the code that includes/generates your URIs can get tightly coupled with the code that dispatches on them (Compojure routes, etc.), this can lead to broken links if you're not careful.
Having used Pedestal services in many of my systems, I'd made heavy use of the (url-for) function. But I found it difficult to extract the Pedestal routing code from the rest of the Pedestal back-end concepts. When I wanted to be able to use http-kit for another project, this prevented me from using Pedestal and I really missed the ability to form URIs - I wanted was the (url-for) function back! Like Pedestal, bidi starts with a data description of your routes - acting as the basis for both the generation of URIs and the dispatch to your handlers. However, bidi only offers URI routing and formation - nothing else - so it can be used for 'traditional' Ring web apps, http-kit, Liberator and so on. With a little work it should work well with ClojureScript too, since it is based on protocols rather than macros. You can find more about bidi, with code examples, here: https://github.com/juxt/bidi While I've been thinking about writing bidi for a long time (hoping someone else more capable than me would write it!), the actual code is very new and so all the usual disclaimers apply. However, I'd be very grateful for feedback on this new library - what you like and dislike about it, initial impressions, complaints, alternatives you know about and any questions etc.. And finally I'd like to wish everyone on this list a Happy New Year and the very best for your Clojure hacking activies in 2014. Malcolm JUXT - https://juxt.pro -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
