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Clojure Web Development Essentials

You're reading from   Clojure Web Development Essentials Develop your own web application with the effective use of the Clojure programming language

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784392222
Length 232 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Luminus 2. Ring and the Ring Server FREE CHAPTER 3. Logging 4. URL Routing and Template Rendering 5. Handling Form Input 6. Testing in Clojure 7. Getting Started with the Database 8. Reading Data from the Database 9. Database Transactions 10. Sessions and Cookies 11. Environment Configuration and Deployment A. Using Korma – a Clojure DSL for SQL Index

Editing the home page


For our app, we don't want to have links back to the Luminus home page. We are going to modify the home page such that it behaves as a simple launch pad to either a sign up form or a login form. Open the resources/templates/home.html file and change it so that it looks like this:

{% extends "templates/base.html" %}
{% block content %}
  <div class="jumbotron">
    <h1>Welcome to hipstr</h1>
    <p>Obscurely building your vinyl cred since, like, now.</p>
    <p><a class="btn btn-success btn-lg" href="{{servlet-context}}/signup">Sign Up</a>
    or
    <a class="btn btn-primary btn-lg" href="{{servlet-context}}/login">Login</a></p>
  </div>
{% endblock %}

Note

We see {{servlet-context}} in the preceding code. Java application containers (such as Glassfish or Tomcat) typically deploy applications at a location other than root, for example /hipstr-application. By prefixing our href sources with {{servlet...

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