Trojan horsing Clojure with Javascript
Trojan Horse with me
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Why
Javascript?
- Dynamic
- Uses maps as their main data structure
- Derived from lisp
- Use first order functions
- Equally unpopular with "proper" language fans
So we're using Clojurescript, yeah?
No
- Clojurescript is very opinionated
- It doesn't fit Node-based build pipelines
- It uses a library that virtually no-one knows
- You have to take it whole, no cherry-picking
Wisp
A Clojure-like Lisp syntax
Wisp
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Javascript
(defn greet [name] (.concat "Hello " name))
(greet "Robert")
(defn currentSections
[allSections, activeSections]
(.filter list (fn [section]
(.some activeSections
(fn [activeSection]
(identical?
section.id activeSection.id))))))
var greet = exports.greet
= function greet(name) {
return 'Hello '.concat(name);
};
greet('Robert');
var currentSections
= exports.currentSections
= function currentSections(
allSections, activeSections) {
return list.filter(
function (section) {
return activeSections.some(
function (activeSection) {
return section.id
=== activeSection.id;
});
});
};
The parens haven't gone away
Packaging (NPM)
Immutability
Mori
Compiled Clojurescript
Prefix notation
Includes quite a few Clojure standard library functions
Clojure data structures
ImmutableJS
Javascript
Prototype extension
Arrays-compatible interface
Feature comparable with Lo-Dash and Underscore
Influenced by Clojure data structures
Om
Love your library
not your language
Omniscient
- Javascript
- React
- ImmutableJS
- Immstruct
How does Om work?
- Uses ReactJS to render an in-memory data structure
- Uses immutable data structures to prevent unnecessary renders
- Allows React components to be attached to sections of a data structure
- Uses core.async to handle event changes
Immstruct
- Wraps ImmutableJS structures
- Provides an event model
- Implements cursors
Cursors
var data = Immutable.fromJS({'person' :
{'name' :
{'first' : 'Robert', 'family' : 'Rees'}
}
, 'age' : 452});
var nameCursor = Cursor.from(data, ['person', 'name']);
nameCursor.update('first', function(name) {return name.toUpperCase();} );
data.getIn(['person', 'name', 'first']); // ROBERT
Event driven rendering
var immstruct = require('immstruct'),
React = require('react');
var appData = immstruct({greeting: "Hello", guest: {name: ""}});
function render() {
React.render(Component(appData.cursor()), documentElement);
}
render();
appData.on('next-animation-frame', render);
Wot no core.async?
Transducers?
Yes you can!
Why not Clojure?
- Confident community
- ES 6, transpilation and ES7
- libraries > framework
Thank you
Blog: rrees.me
Twitter: rrees
http://slides.com/rrees/trojan-horsing-clojure-with-js
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By Robert Rees
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