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Hands-On Reactive Programming with Clojure

You're reading from   Hands-On Reactive Programming with Clojure Create asynchronous, event-based, and concurrent applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789346138
Length 298 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Leonardo Borges Leonardo Borges
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Konrad Szydlo Konrad Szydlo
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Preface 1. What is Reactive Programming? FREE CHAPTER 2. A Look at Reactive Extensions 3. Asynchronous Programming and Networking 4. Introduction to core.async 5. Creating Your Own CES Framework with core.async 6. Building a Simple ClojureScript Game with Reagi 7. The UI as a Function 8. A New Approach to Futures 9. A Reactive API to Amazon Web Services 10. Reactive Microservices 11. Testing Reactive Apps 12. Concurrency Utilities in Clojure 13. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix - The Algebra of Library Design

A respondent application

This chapter would not be complete if we didn't go through the whole development life cycle of deploying and using the new framework in a new application. This is the purpose of this section.

The application we will build is extremely simple. All it does is track the position of the mouse using the reactive primitives we built into respondent.

To that end, we will be using the excellent Lein template, figwheel, which was created by Bruce Hauman to help developers get started with ClojureScript[4].

Let's get started:

    lein new figwheel respondent-app  

Next, let's modify the project file to include the following dependencies:

[respondent/respondent "0.1.0-SNAPSHOT"] 
[prismatic/dommy "1.1.0"] 

The first dependency is self-explanatory. It's simply our own framework. dommy is a DOM manipulation library for ClojureScript...

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