Todo-it

Todo-it is a sample Pedestal application developed from scratch. Read more information below, or in the accompanying slides.

A video workshop walking through the construction of this project is available in my O'Reilly webcast Building Web Applications in Clojure.

Usage

Pre-requisites

• Install JDK 7+
• Install the Leiningen build tool
• Clone this repository (git clone https://github.com/rkneufeld/pedestal-workshop)

Running the application

Inside pedestal-workshop/, run the command lein run. The first time you run this command Leiningen will fetch and install all of the application's dependencies.

Once the application starts, you will see something like the following:

$ lein run
INFO  org.eclipse.jetty.util.log - Logging initialized @10299ms
INFO  org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server - jetty-9.1.3.v20140225
INFO  o.e.j.server.handler.ContextHandler - Started o.e.j.s.ServletContextHandler@6d0433ee{/,null,AVAILABLE}
INFO  o.e.jetty.server.ServerConnector - Started ServerConnector@32af198c{HTTP/1.1}{0.0.0.0:8080}
INFO  org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server - Started @10431ms

At this point, the application is ready. Visit or cURL http://localhost:8080/hello to verify the application is running properly (all but the very first commit should respond).

If you've built or checked-out the final version of the application, visit http://localhost:8080/todos to see it in action.

Following along with the workshop

The slides for following along with this workshop are available at https://speakerdeck.com/rkneufeld/web-apps-on-a-pedestal.

Branches exist for each exercise, allowing you to git checkout checkpoint-x and start with a clean, working state.

Checkpoint branches are:

• exercise-1 - Basic application with only /hello
• exercise-2 - /hello?name=You!
• exercise-3 - Heroku deployable application
• exercise-4 - Transient persistence via in-memory Datomic (todoit.todo.db)
• exercise-5 - /todos with a stubbed TODO form
• exercise-6 - Bootstrap paint job!
• exercise-7 - Finally, /todos can create, read, update, and destroy TODOs.

License

Copyright © 2014 Ryan Neufeld

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License either version 1.0 or (at your option) any later version.