Modular provides a number of templates to generate Clojure project skeletons with the aim of getting you up-and-running quickly with your own projects.
The command line arguments are
lein new modular <your-project-name> <template-to-generate-from>For example
lein new modular my-website bootstrap-coverA growing number of templates are supported. If you find any problems with these templates, raise issues on this project to get them fixed, or send pull requests.
These templates make use of components that are provided by modular, so in most cases there is not much code, demonstrating the re-use that can be achieved by using components.
A simple website that displays "Hello World!".
This introduces the modular.ring/WebRequestHandler protocol which provides an integration surface between a Ring-compatible web server (e.g. Jetty, http-kit) and a Ring handler.
In most applications, the choice of web server is made ahead of time and some code is written to provide the web server with the handler to call. In this example, the relationship between the web server and Ring handler is made via a dependency declaration between the web server (in this case, http-kit) and the handler.
In the system.clj we see two components: :http-listener-listener and :hello-world-website-handler. The first component declares a dependency on a request handler, with the using clause. The new-dependency-map function returns a map that satisfies the web server comonent's :request-handler dependency with our application component hello-world-web.hello-world-website/HelloWorldHandler. This component must satisfy the modular.ring/WebRequestHandler protocol. This pattern of using protocols to provide the integration surface between components is used throughout modular.
Another simple website that displays "Hello World!".
This introduces a router component which dispatches incoming HTTP requests to one of its dependant components providing routes.
This demonstrates one of the principles of modularity. We avoid a single data structure comprising all the HTTP routes in a system. Rather, we allow individual modules to make contributions to this route structure.
bidi is used in this example, but the principle would be the same using Compojure routes, which supports similar composeable mechanisms.
Bootstrap cover is adapted from Twitter Bootstrap's 'cover' example. It introduces the Mustache template renderer, provided by Clostache.
It also shows how to provide static resources from JQuery and Bootstrap by contributing routes to the router, rather than requiring code modifications.
The template also introduces the concept of co-dependencies. This is
can be seen in the arguments to the Website record in
website.clj, which include a reference to the router. The
component uses this router to construct the URLs to other
handlers. While these handlers are also defined within the Website
component, routes can be constructed in this way to any known handler in
the system, using its keyword and any required arguments. See
bidi for more details.
Similar to bootstrap-cover above, but uses the bootstrap dashboard example.
This template adds a ClojureScript compiler component which recompiles the source modifications in the included src-cljs on every reset.
The application demonstrates client-side routing, using the cljs version of bidi.