Clojuring the web application stack: Meditation One

In a land bereft of a canonical "killer app" web framework or two, one must think about the what, why, how, where of all the moving parts. Out here, one must become a student of web framework architecture in addition to web application architecture. For here, in Clojure-land, the two are one. ☯ Getting about (this post) This post is big! Skip whatever bores… Follow the nice ToC! It is an "I to I" explanation I wish I had long ago. I've referenced getting started material and "batteries included" Clojure web stacks toward the end, which may be the most practically useful section of this post. Update (2025-02-18): Links to my talk at Functional Conf 2025: Composing (Clojure) Web Stacks using Functional First Principles (video, slides). Update (2024-09-04): I just published a complete project that follows up the concepts set up in this post. adityaathalye/usermanager-first-principles is a stripped-down variant of seancorfield/usermanager-example. The project README explains all. Error ... Read full article.