huahaiy/awesome-clojure

A curated list of awesome Clojure libraries and resources. Inspired by awesome-... stuff

Awesome Clojure

• Awesome products in Clojure

  • LightTable (IDE)
  • Nightcode (IDE)
  • Maria.cloud (Online IDE for beginners)
  • Riemann (Monitoring)
  • Precursor (Online prototyping tool)
  • Puppet Server
  • PuppetDB
  • Metabase
  • Metabase Datomic
  • CircleCI
  • asciinema
  • Avi (vim rewrite)
  • Liquid (Text Editor)
  • Nightlight (Text Editor)
  • Clojupyter
  • meins
  • Jepsen
  • Braid: a team-chat app with a novel UI that leads to better conversations
  • Atea: a minimalistic menu bar time tracker for MacOS
  • Accelerated Text: a natural language generation environment (backend: Clojure, frontend: JS)

• Languages written with Clojure

  • jank
  • lux
  • mal
  • scheje
  • eden

• Awesome tools in Clojure

  • Advanced datastructures
  • Web Framework
  • Dependency injection
  • Build Automation and Package management
  • Version Control Management
  • Date and Time
  • GUI
  • Audio
  • HTTP
  • Database
  • Connection pools
  • Structural Migrations
  • Redis
  • JSON
  • ORM and SQL generation
  • Security
  • RESTful API
  • GraphQL API
  • Emails
  • HTML Manipulation
  • Data Validation
  • Type System
  • Pattern Matching
  • Async processing
  • Monads
  • WebSocket
  • Testing
  • Webdriver automation
  • Code Analysis and Linter
  • Science and Data Analysis
  • Machine Learning
  • Computer Vision
  • Text Processing
  • Parsing
  • Reflection
  • Editor Plugins
  • Documentation
  • Literate Programming
  • Archives and Compression
  • Miscellaneous
  • Debugging tools
  • CI
  • Project Management
  • Terminal UI
  • Graphviz

• Resources

  • Guides
  • Video tutorials
  • Websites
  • Twitter
  • Exercises

Advanced datastructures

• Persistent AVL trees: persistent sorted maps and sets with log-time rank queries
• Finger Tree: double-list, counted-double-list, counted-sorted-set
• Hitchhiker Tree: create fast, snapshottable, massively scalable databases
• Hierarchical set
• Ordered: ordered sets and maps
• Lazy Map: whose values are only calculated when accessed
• Duratom, enduro, perdure: atoms persisted on disk
• Durable Queue: queue persisted on disk
• bifurcan: linear map/set/list (stores entries contiguously in memory), ;writtern in java, but test suite (read: usage examples) in clojure

Web Framework

Actually don't search rails/django here, but compose them by yourself

• Compojure
• Compojure-api
• Web Non-Framework
• Luminus
• Joodo
• Coils
• Duct
• Pedestal
• Datsys
• yada
• Hoplon
• Fulcro
• Coast
• Reitit
• Tadam

Dependency injection

Managed lifecycle of stateful objects

• Component
• System
• mount
• Integrant

Build Automation and Package management

Libraries for project build automation and package/dependency management.

• Leiningen
• Boot
• lucid.distribute
• lucid.package
• clojurephant (Gradle plugin)
• shadow-cljs (Clojurescript)

Version Control Management

Code utilities for interacting with VCS software

• lucid.git

Date and Time

Libraries for working with dates and times.

• clj-time
• clojure.java-time - Java 8 Date-Time API
• timewords

GUI

• fx-clj
• seesaw
• trikl

Audio

• Overtone
• Alda

HTTP

Libraries for working with HTTP.

• clj-http
• http-kit
• ring
• kvlt
• aleph

Database

Databases and database client libraries

• Datomic
• Datahike
• Datascript
• Datalevin
• Cassandra
• clojure.jdbc
• cravendb
• Mongo
• Monglorious
• RethinkDB
• Revise (RethinkDB)
• Spandex (ElasticSearch)
• Elastisch
• Neo4j
• Aerospike

Connection pools

Database connection pools

• hikari-cp
• metabase/connection-pool

Structural Migrations

Keeps database and others in sync

• Lobos
• Ragtime
• Joplin
• Migratus
• Drift

Redis

• carmine
• celtuce

JSON

• cheshire
• jsonista

Database Cli

ORM and SQL generation

DSL for SQL generation.

• Walkable
• Korma
• Specql
• stch-library/sql
• sqlingvo
• sqlium
• honeysql
• Toucan

Security

Authentication, authorization and other security related libraries.

• Buddy
• caesium (libsodium bindings)
• Friend
• bolt

RESTful API

Libraries for developing RESTful APIs.

• Liberator
• Compojure-api
• Friboo
• yada
• router
• reitit

GraphQL API

Libraries for developing GraphQL APIs.

• Lacinia

Emails

• postal

HTML Manipulation

Libraries for working with HTML.

• Enlive
• hiccup
• clostache
• selmer

Data Validation

Libraries for validating data.

• Validateur
• Prismatic's schema
• domaintypes
• Bouncer
• clova
• Orchestra
• struct

Type System

Optional type system for Clojure

• core.typed

Pattern Matching

• core.match
• Verbal-Exprejon
• defun
• cats.match
• Akar
• Meander

Async processing

• core.async
• pulsar
• manifold

Monads

• cats
• algo.monads
• Fluokitten

WebSocket

• Chord
• Sente
• aleph

Testing

• Expectations
• Midje
• lucid.unit
• test-doubles
• kaocha

Webdriver automation

• Etaoin

Code Analysis and Linter

• Slamhound
• eastwood
• kibit
• lucid.query
• yagni
• lein-bikeshed
• spectrum
• cloverage
• clj-kondo

Science and Data Analysis

Libraries, extended REPLs, and other tools for scientific and statistical data anylysis and visualization.

• Incanter
• Cascalog
• Onyx
• sparklling
• flambo
• Neanderthal
• lucid.graph
• Streaming Histograms
• Gorilla REPL
• Bayadera - Bayesian Data Analysis on the GPU
• ClojureCUDA
• Neanderthal - fast matrix and linear algebra
• ClojureCL - parallel computations with OpenCL
• Loom - graph library for Clojure

Machine Learning

• clj-ml
• cortex
• clj-bigml
• Clatern
• Deeplearning4j
• Enclog
• Infer
• k9
• lambda-ml
• Statistiker
• Synaptic
• clojure-tensorflow
• dl4clj (deeplearning4j to clojure)
• Anglican

Computer Vision

• clj-tesseract
• vision

Text Processing

• clojure-opennlp
• postagga
• beagle

Parsing

• Instaparse
• kern
• duckling
• buran - RSS/Atom feed consumer and producer

Exceptions and Error Handling

• Ex
• Perseverance
• Dire

Reflection

*Libraries for improved code reflection and object introspection

• hara.reflect
• lucid.mind
• lucid.query

Rule-based Programming

• Clara Rules
• Arete

Editor Plugins

• Calva (VSCode)
• CIDER (Emacs)
• smartparens (Emacs)
• rainbow-delimiters (Emacs)
• aggressive-indent (Emacs)
• vim-cljfmt (Vim)
• vim-eastwood (Vim)
• vim-fireplace (Vim)
• vim-redl (Vim)
• vim-leiningen (Vim)
• rainbow_parentheses.vim (Vim)
• vim-iced (Vim)
• Cursive (IntelliJ)
• Parinfer (multiple editors)
• Bracket Pair Colorizer (VSCode)

Documentation

Utilities and libraries for (non-LP) code and project documentation

• lucid.publish

Literate Programming

• marginalia
• klipse

Archives and Compression

• swindon (java.util.zip wrapper)

Miscellaneous

• potemkin - reexport vars in another ns / act like a clojure map
• clj-tuple
• slingshot
• lucid.system
• virgil
• javastar
• riddley
• kezban

Debugging

• tools.trace
• debugger
• debug-repl
• ritz
• redl
• limit-break
• spyscope
• aprint
• packed-printer
• pretty
• prone
• figwheel
• ultra
• mate-clj

CI

• lambdacd

Project Management

• milestones

Terminal UI

• clojure-lanterna
• triki
• zaffre
• closh

Graphviz

• zipper-viz
• dorothy
• viz.cljc
• fsmviz
• rhizome

Guides

• The Clojure Style Guide
• Clojure Distilled
• clojure-cookbook
• A Brief Beginner's Guide To Clojure
• Clojure for the Brave and True
• Clojure from the ground up
• Error message catalog
• Clojure by Example

Video tutorials

YouTube

• Misophistful's channel: Understand concepts such as list comprehension, threading macros, generative testing, destructuring, core.match and introductions to Light Table, Datomic and Game development with Clojure
• Fred Overflow's channel: Introductions to Functional programming and TDD with Clojure
• Clojure Pills screencast: Introduction to Clojure one function at a time
• Data persistance with Postgres, Clojure and JDBC
• Clojure Tutorials by Timothy Baldridge: More advanced videos on core.async, tranducers, transients, logic programming and a "Function of the day" series.

Websites

• Clojure
• Clojure Slack
• clojuredocs
• crossclj
• clojure-doc
• The Clojure Toolbox
• InstaREPL Online
• ZEEF/Clojure
• Try Clojure

Twitter

• oss_clj

Exercises

• Clojure Koans
• Wonderland Clojure Katas
• Clojure Katas
• 4clojure
• exercism.io
• Clojurecademy
• Codewars