Arg I am driving myself nuts someone help me make a decision

I want to start a re-frame project with a clojure back end

I like the idea of using boot because I don’t need to start two separate processes (one for cljs and one for clj)

But it seems like that’s not a good idea for someone inexperienced with the ecosystem because boot doesn’t have a lot of out-of-the-box solutions for things like running front- and back-end reloading servers at the same time

And there are many options for lein templates, but there doesn’t seem to be a good way to combine templates

@adamtrilling: take a look at saapas for an extensive example of frontend + backend project https://github.com/Deraen/saapas

@adamtrilling: I'd generally try to have two separate projects, one with HTTP API and the other one containing the frontend

I believe @seancorfield is adding support for lein templates to boot

Hm that sappas build.boot is a great example

> boot doesn’t have a lot of out-of-the-box solutions for things like running front- and back-end reloading servers at the same time Hmm, what do you mean by that? I run boot-http to serve static files and have the backend as a reloadable component system using system.boot and it works pretty well.

@jaen dumb question: what’s system.boot?

Just a helper task around reloaded.repl for boot, let me find a link.

@adamtrilling: catch - https://github.com/danielsz/system#boot-system

Also interesting...

Thanks everyone!

As @meow says, yes, I have a prototype Boot task that runs Leiningen templates! It will support "Boot templates" too and a bunch more stuff.

For now boot -d seancorfield/boot-new:0.1.0-SNAPSHOT -t templatename -n projectname should work if you want to test it on you favorite lein-template

Open issues at https://github.com/seancorfield/boot-new

How will boot templates differ from Lein's?

Really just naming conventions. So foo/boot-template and boot.new.foo/foo etc. mostly because it seems weird to have a Leiningen template that generates a Boot project.

But boot-new will support both.

The built-in templates (app, default, task, template) will generate Boot-based projects.

Boot templates will also support generating new pieces of an existing project at some point (like Rails generation of controllers etc).

Suggestions and feedback welcome on GitHub.