Clam

DO NOT USE THIS!!! EVERYTHING WILL CHANGE! EVERYTHING YOU BUILD WITH THIS WILL PROBABLY BREAK IN THE FUTURE

Basically trying to make a nextjs for clojurescript. We're very much trying to provide the same things for the same reasons.

Check out the template for an example of usage.

notes

• We rely on deps.edn, no Leiningen support
• Clam uses shadow-cljs under the hood
• We assume a pages directory in the root of the clam project (where your site entry points will go). This directory uses file based routing, so the location of the .cljs files in it matter.
• You need to make sure you have pages and .clam/cp in your deps.edn :paths entry.
• Clam analyses code in the pages dir and generates complimentary code in .clam/cp
• Clam apps are react apps that execute in a browser and are Serverside rendered via serverless functions in a node process.

crash course on internals

Clam leverages shadow-cljs for compilation, watching and hot-reloading. The integration is scripted so no shadow-cljs.edn is required.

Running npx clam dev runs a node script which:

• Crawls directories upwards to find the clam.edn file, marking the clam project root
• Does some directory preparation
• Starts an node http server that can execute serverless functions
• Kicks off a jvm which runs the clam build watcher

The clam build watcher watches the pages directory and runs the clojurescript analyzer against the .cljs files, which it then uses to create optimised shadow-cljs build configurations.

The build watcher kicks off a shadow-cljs server process and starts 2 watch processes. Once for the browser :clam/site and one for the serverless node environment :clam/api. Both of these are attachable with a repl.

Development Story

• Clone clam template
• run npm install
• run npx clam dev
• Connect to a remote repl from your editor (port should be auto picked up by the editor from .shadow-cljs/nrepl.port file). Attach to the shadow-cljs build: Either :clam/api or clam/site or both, depending on where you want your repl. Note that because there's no shadow-cljs.edn file, emacs (and probably others) won't auto pick up these builds so you will need to manually type them in.

You should have a hot reloadable development story. To add a new page to the site, just make a .cljs file in the corresponding place and

Vercel

Adding npx clam release --vercel to your package.json build script will generate release files in a way that just works with vercel.

Roadmap

• [X] hot reloading
• [X] file based routing
• [X] serverside rendering
• [X] Document and head manipulation
• [ ] react wrapper
• [ ] extensible serverless functions
• [ ] React Fast Refresh
• [ ] better & dynamic file based routing
• [ ] dynamic module loading and progressive loading
• [ ] route prefetching
• [ ] SSG (build time generation / rendering) for static site generation