TRAM :: Tools for Rapid Application Modeling
Tram is an opinionated Clojure web framework, inspired by Ruby on Rails, to help you quickly and joyfully build web applications. Tram provides default libraries, scaffolding that wires them together, and a CLI tool for managing familiar tasks.
Tram is for you if you've ever wanted to use Clojure but been overwhelmed by the amount of upfront learning required. You shouldn't need to select 20 libraries and wire them together yourself just to write a Hello World application.
Note
Tram is in early alpha and not ready for production use
The workflow is atypical. Go to the application context where the daemon needs to run.
Start a nrepl server you want to connect to. I use this for cider
clojure -Sdeps \{\:deps\ \{nrepl/nrepl\ \{\:mvn/version\ \"1.3.1\"\}\ cider/cider-nrepl\ \{\:mvn/version\ \"0.53.2\"\}\ refactor-nrepl/refactor-nrepl\ \{\:mvn/version\ \"3.10.0\"\}\}\ \:aliases\ \{\:cider/nrepl\ \{\:main-opts\ \[\"-m\"\ \"nrepl.cmdline\"\ \"--middleware\"\ \"\[refactor-nrepl.middleware/wrap-refactor\,cider.nrepl/cider-middleware\]\"\]\}\}\} -M:dev:test:cider/nreplAfter that is running, connect to it from your editor, and execute (tram.daemon/-main), and you should be good to eval and live code.
Big thanks to these projects for inspiration and some code. I try to annotate any code that is either directly or indirectly lifted from another project in the ns docstring. If you think I've left anything out, please either email me or file an issue and I'll happily add an attribution.
Biff, Kit, and Luminus are all fully fledged Clojure web frameworks that are fantastic, but didn't quite scratch my itch. Check them out if you think Tram might not be for you (or if you think it is).