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The Clojure Workshop

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Product type Book
Published in Jan 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838825485
Pages 800 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (5):
Joseph Fahey Joseph Fahey
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Thomas Haratyk Thomas Haratyk
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Scott McCaughie Scott McCaughie
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Yehonathan Sharvit Yehonathan Sharvit
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Konrad Szydlo Konrad Szydlo
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface 1. Hello REPL! 2. Data Types and Immutability 3. Functions in Depth 4. Mapping and Filtering 5. Many to One: Reducing 6. Recursion and Looping 7. Recursion II: Lazy Sequences 8. Namespaces, Libraries and Leiningen 9. Host Platform Interoperability with Java and JavaScript 10. Testing 11. Macros 12. Concurrency 13. Database Interaction and the Application Layer 14. HTTP with Ring 15. The Frontend: A ClojureScript UI Appendix

Hiccup instead of HTML

Hiccup is a library for representing HTML in Clojure. In Activity 6.01, Generating HTML from Clojure Vectors, you implemented a simplified version of Hiccup. As you'll remember, Hiccup uses:

  • Vectors to represent elements
  • Maps to represent an element's attributes (including styles)

In a Hiccup vector, the first element is a keyword that specifies the corresponding HTML element:

  • :div for a <div> tag
  • :span for a <span> tag
  • :img for a <img> tag

In Hiccup, an empty <div> is represented by [:div].

The second element is an optional map that represents the element's attributes where the names of the attributes follow the kebab-case convention: we separate the words with one underscore character (on-click instead of onClick).

For example, [:div {:class "myDiv"}] represents <div class="myDiv"></div>.

Notice that in HTML, the style attribute is a string...

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