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Clojure Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   Clojure Programming Cookbook Handle every problem you come across in the world of Clojure programming with this expert collection of recipes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785885037
Length 618 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nicolas Modrzyk Nicolas Modrzyk
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Makoto Hashimoto Makoto Hashimoto
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Live Programming with Clojure 2. Interacting with Collections FREE CHAPTER 3. Clojure Next 4. File Access and the Network 5. Working with Other Languages 6. Concurrency and Parallelism 7. Advanced Tips 8. Web Applications 9. Testing 10. Deployment and DevOps

Quickly create a REST API with Liberator


Liberator is a Clojure library for developing resources for REST web services. REST is an abbreviation for Representational State Transfer and it's an architectural style for designing web network applications.

Liberator was inspired by Erlang's Webmachine. Webmachine was developed by Justin Sheehy, who is the CTO of Basho Technologies, has developed Riak. Webmachine is a RESTful toolkit for writing well-behaved HTTP applications and helping developers to handle the complexities of an HTTP-based application.

Similarly, using Liberator makes web API developments simpler but provides HTTP rich features such as content negotiation and caching.

Getting ready

Before we learn Liberator, we will create a new project named liberator-example. To do this, use lein new to create a new Clojure project:

$ lein new liberator-example 

Then, we will modify the generated project.clj to make use of Liberator. In addition to a Liberator library, we need the ring and compojure...

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