What You’ve Learned

We’ve got our project set up nicely now, and it’ll pay dividends. Having your service API and front end easily inspectable and testable will make you more efficient and improve your understanding. We also haven’t sacrificed anything because we’ve been careful about keeping development tools separate from our production profile.

We’ve also learned quite a bit about separating our application into layers. By modeling our application as a series of layers with data flowing through them, we can reason about them independently and enhance them easily. We took advantage of this by swapping out some Ajax requests for live WebSocket connections.

We now have all the tools we need to build a robust Clojure(Script) web application. In the next chapter, we’ll draft a plan for upgrading our guestbook application into our very own microblogging application.