Show HN: PWA generator / HTML helper lib for Clojure

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5 points | by spacegangster 1418 days ago

2 comments

jetti 1417 days ago
I'm relatively new to Clojure and have been interested in writing something like this. I have a few questions/comments:
- What made you decide to write CacheBustHelper in Java? I believe something like:
```
  (defn bust-cache
    [input-stream]
    (with-open [rdr (clojure.java.io/reader input-stream)]
      (doseq [b (.read rdr)
              :when (not= -1 b)]
        nil)))
```
I'm not sure the performance difference between the two though.
- Does it work with any web backend framework? Could I use something like Luminus or Fulcro? Does the request just have to follow the Ring request format?
- Looks like lines 183 through 198 on core.clj could be when instead of if
- what about making update-if-present:
```
  (defn update-if-present
    [m & v]
      (reduce (fn [acc [k f]] 
                (if (contains? acc k) 
                  (update acc k f)
                  acc))
              m
              (partition 2 v)))
```
That would allow you to do the following:
```
  (update-if-present page-data :twitter-image cache-bust-one
                               :og-image cache-bust-one
                               :favicon cache-bust-one
                               :link-apple-icon cache-bust-one
                               :link-apple-startup-image cache-bust-one
                               :link-image-src cache-bust-one
                               :script cache-bust
                               :script-sync cache-bust
                               :js-module cache-bust
                               :stylesheet cache-bust
                               :stylesheet-async cache-bust
                               :manifest cache-bust-one)
```
Those are just some things I noticed on first glance.
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- spacegangster 1416 days ago
  whoa, thanks a lot for the comment! I'll add it to my todo list, and will look into it when I'll be doing the next iteration!
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  - jetti 1416 days ago
    I haven't tested any of that code so it may not work perfectly.
    I have another question: did you model this on any existing html generating solution (such as reagent/om/rum)? I am looking at those projects for inspiration and a guide on how to do this kind of generation
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    - spacegangster 1415 days ago
      Well, HTML is generated by Hiccup, it's a solid veteran library
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      - jetti 1415 days ago
        Yea, I totally missed that. I'm working on a ClojureScript library so there is no Hiccup and I'm planning on targeting Vue instead of React which means reagent and sablono are both out too.
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        spacegangster 1415 days ago
        freaking cool! have you seen recent React take on atoms? I haven't dived into that, but from the surface it sounded like they're playing with Vue's approach. Perhaps Vue is more developed in its own approach though :-)
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        jetti 1414 days ago
        I have not seen that. I'm not very familiar with standard React, I've only briefly worked on a React codebase and the rest of the time I've used React via Reagent
spacegangster 1418 days ago
My lib for Clojure, using it in a real project. Currently planning next iteration, probably will include prefetch links and streamline cache-busting. Most brutal critique is welcome as well as other forms of feedback.
Cheers!