Haha, funny, I just started writing my own app that does exactly that and while parsing / displaying comments I found yours and your website.
Awesome, I guess this saves me a weekend project. Thank you very much.
I made it to show how easy it is to get started with clj / cljs web development. It uses closp, which covers everyhting from configuration to front / backend work, migration, tests, selenium tests, template generation and so on.
Also have a look at the intro: http://closp.net/pages/closp-intro/ which shows how you can get started with 5 commands in the console (given you have leiningen / jdk installed, which would be two more steps, if not).
There is also the possibility to run lein uberjar from the project and get a standalone jar with webserver and compiled clojurescript generated.
Then there is luminus which is somewhat similar and provides much of the same featureset and has a great documentation: http://luminusweb.net
Regarding boot I agree with you, its confusing to have two build tools. It adds some features that leiningen does not provide and for which there was a need. That said, the number one build tool is still leiningen.
Stacktraces are aweful, agreed too, there is no satisfying solution to it that I know.
I started blocking ads when adblock plus was not even a thing. Not sure when that was exactly, 10 years ago or more?
However, I did it when they started to add moving ads. There was a site that I regularly consumed (multiple times a day) and that I wanted to support. But, I was not able to focus on the content, everytime that blinking ad just distracted me.
So I had the choice, stop using that site or blocking the ads. I started using adblock back then and everytime I have to use a computer without a blocker I thank myself for the wise decision back then.
That said I would rather not consume anything anymore than allowing ads again.
The things that I was and am really interested in, will be saturated by buying books and the people that put up stuff for free, like I do for certain things.
Also I would pay for services I like. Byte.fm did it the right way I think. It's online radio, from the beginning on they never streamed ads and still do not do so today. Not long after I started to consume them I paid them and still do so today because I support services that explicitly do not use ads.
I am of the same mind. I make payments/donations to sites I enjoy regularly and block ads wholesale. If Forbes will not let me read their content w/ an AdBlocker, then I will just not read, nor cite, their content. Simple as that. I have weened myself off of much infotainment over the years and as sites bork/discontinue their RSS feeds I will read even less web content. My life is more enjoyable with less noise on the ine, anyway.
TLDR; Yes, clojure is behind in regards of web development, but it is not as bad as you said. There is active work done in this area.
I totally agree with what you said. It is a general understanding in the clojure community that you compose libraries to get things done.
However, for web development that still means a lot of repitition, thats why I created the closp template.
My idea was to provide one way with sensible defaults to get started in doing web stuff in clojure.
I still work regularly on it and would be happy about contributions / feature requests. Whereas regularly means in terms of months as I do this all in my spare time.
Also I am quite active in the clojure community and I know that luminus is not shunned, but instead it also receives improvements and releases regularly. Also the author of luminus works professionally with clojure and with luminus.
And I have to admit, that luminus has the far superior documentation, he has done a good job on it I think.
