18 May 2014 oubiwann   » (Journeyer)

lfest: A Routing Party for LFE Web Apps

The Clojure community (in particular, James Reeves) has produced one of the best APIs I've seen for creating RESTful services, or any application using path dispatching (routing), really: Compojure.

I've been really missing this in LFE. Despite the fact that creating RESTful apps in LFE with YAWS is so simple it doesn't even need a framework, the routes can be a bit difficult to read, due to some of the destructuring that's done (e.g., URL paths).

Take the following route declaration from the yaws-rest-starter project:

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