example-metosin-service

An example Clojure service using some Metosin libraries.

• HTTP server: aleph
• HTTP encoding/decoding/format negotiation: muuntaja
• Routing: reitit
• JSON encoding/decoding: jsonista
• URL generation: hype
• Component framework: integrant
• Persistence: crux

Learnings:

1. Using hype for URL generation is possible by modifying the expander function, which allows you to define the routes in the bidi-style route structure that hype expects. EDIT: more complicated use cases do not seem possible due to differences in how route parameters are defined
2. Integrant serves to create components that have a lifecycle. It allows you to define configuration for these components, but does not give capabilities out of the box to load configuration from various sources (environment, yaml/json file). I.e, it is not a replacement for configurati