Introduction to Joodo

August 20, 2012

This week I’m diving head first into Clojure and more specifically web development in Clojure. Clojure has a view frameworks to choose from when working with the web, but I’ll be talking about Joodo.

Joodo is a lightweight framework with a very small API. It tries to do the least amount of work possible then get out of your way.

Instillation

First of all you’re going to want to have Leiningen 2 installed if its not already.

mkdir ~/bin &&
wget --no-check-certificate https://raw.github.com/technomancy/leiningen/preview/bin/lein ~/bin/ &&
chmod 755 ~/bin/lein

Next update your ~/.lein/profiles.clj

{:user {:plugins [ [joodo/lein-joodo "0.10.0"] ]}}

Now we can create a Joodo project and start the server.

lein joodo new sample
cd sample
lein joodo server
open "http://localhost:8080"

Boom! You’re up an running with Joodo. Next we’ll talk about the Joodo directory structure and changes we can make to the configuration to make our application be more expressive.