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Discussion on: Learn how to build Functional Front-ends with ClojureScript and React.

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Ben Halpern

Who should and should not consider down this road? What were the use cases and interests that lead you here?

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Jacek Schæ

Hi Ben,
Thanks for your comment. I looked at Elm, ReasonML and somehow end up at the RealWorld app (github.com/gothinkster/realworld). I wrote first, an implementation of RealWorld in ClojureScript and then an article that compares Front-end frameworks (medium.freecodecamp.org/a-real-wor...). It turns out that Clojure is the most concise language out there. I see code as a liability - the more I write the more I need to maintain. Therefore the more expressive I can be with my building blocks (language) the happier I am. What I didn't know when I was doing this is that Clojure has amazing amount of very good ideas and learning the language helped me to become better developer. As for the background I'm a web dev with PHP, Ruby, and JS knowledge. Hope that helps!