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Asked: 2026-05-29T12:26:23+00:00

Note: I’m a backend (Java) developer by trade and work in Clojure in my

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Note: I’m a backend (Java) developer by trade and work in Clojure in my spare time, so forgive me for my ignorance.

I’m trying to get my head around Clojurescript and how it could potentially fit in with projects I’m working on, or plan to work on in the future. As I’ve grown up with the “classic” web development mindset (e.g. Clojure running the backend, distributing data to the frontend via JSON to be processed in JS or returning a HTML page for the browser to render), I’m having trouble trying to understand how Clojurescript might make things better than this model.

Could anyone explain to me what the general approach to Clojurescript/Clojure development would be, seeing as the “Clojurescript One” project moniker signifies that application development will be unified under one language (as such)

  • What tasks would normally be done in the Clojurescript portion of the application?
  • What tasks would normally be done in the Clojure (e.g. backend) portion of the application?

Any help would be appreciated, or if anyone can point me towards some diagrams or explanations or anything – that would be great too!

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  1. Editorial Team

    I think Clojure/ClojureScript applications will be structured very similarly to X backend technology + JavaScript.

    One big benefit with architecting applications with Clojure and ClojureScript – a richer data format than JSON (you can represent hash-maps and sets with arbitrary keys) without losing compactness.

    JavaScript is a fine, fine language but ClojureScript offers quite a few benefits. It’s semantically simpler (functional), ships with a rich standard library, a robust battle tested application library (Google Closure), and all the benefits you get from the tasteful application of syntactic abstraction via macros.

    That said, it’s still very much alpha software and the tooling still needs a lot of work.

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