Creating a Clojure solution using IntelliJ

I am creating a simple Clojure web app and API. In this post I explore how to create each with the lein command and what references I need to use.

I plan to work on a monolith IntelliJ and git solution so that I don't need to maintain multiple projects and repositories.

Web App

lein new re-frame kashikoi-app +less +garden +10x +re-frisk +test +handler +routes

• CSS +less: less - LESS CSS compiler plugin for Lein.

• CSS +garden: garden - Generate CSS with Clojure.

• Debug +re-frisk: re-frisk - A debugging dashboard for re-frame.

• Debug +10x: re-frame-10x - Visualize re-frame pattern data or reagent ratom data as a tree structure, watch re-frame events and export state in the debugger.

• Development +test: clj.test - A unit testing framework and doo - A library and lein plugin to run cljs.test on different js environments.

• Full-stack +handler: compojure - A consice routing library for Ring/Clojure.

• Routing +routes: secretary - A client-side router for ClojureScript.

API

lein new app kashikoi-api

Follow the instructions to create an API using Compojure (web APIs, includes Swagger) and Toucan (define application models and retrieve them from a database).

IntelliJ

Create a monolith solution by adding both projects to the solution. This is useful if you want to maintain a single repository instead of two.

• Create a blank project
• Import each module using the Leiningen external module option
• Set resources, sources and test directories
• git init on solution
• Commit your files as desired

To access the modules dialog box again > Right-click on a project, click on Open Module Settings or File > Project Structure or Ctrl + Alt + Shift + S

References

• IntelliJ IDEA
• Developing RESTful APIs in Clojure Using Compojure-API and Toucan (Part-1) Codementor Community - Tamizhvendan S
• Day8 / re-frame template - Github