Beginning ClojureScript: How not to learn a new language

Talk I gave at Sydney's Clojure meetup about my experience of learning ClojureScript.

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1. Beginning ClojureScript How not to learn a new language @gregoltsov www.gregory.goltsov.info gregory@goltsov.info
3. Watched & loved Simple Made Easy. “I’m learning Clojure”
4. Watched & loved Simple Made Easy. “I’m learning Clojure”
5. This was 5 years ago
6. Demo
7. — Why? — Too much Angular. Front-end never felt right. Gulp, webpack, whaaa?
8. Enter ClojureScript Re-frame Re-frisk Figwheel
9. — Re-frame — Amazing wiki Starter apps Simple toolbelt Easy-ish to start for noobs like me
10. — Re-frame — A lot of JS intro with Leaflet.js Translating to JS is annoying to begin with, but Figwheel kicks in. DB as a global state + no args events for super-quick prototyping.
11. — Re-com + re-frisk — Crazy fast for building interfaces. No more CSS hate. Hard to style nicely. Global state + re-frist = happiness.
12. Starter App TodoMVC
13. Lessons learned
14. If you’re starting, Clojure + Emacs = Fail
15. Start with tech you already know Python + Flask
16. lein vs boot
17. lein vs boot
18. tooo vs calendar
19. todo vs calendar Plan (getplan.co) vs Todoist
20. 4clojure?
21. 4clojure?
22. Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought — Matsuo Basho
23. Commit to a project
24. Commit to a project
25. Commit to a giving a talk I have no idea what I’m doing
26. Consistency >> Inspiration
27. 1 hour daily “one small improvement” rewarding 3 hours every Saturday huge leap daunting, feeling behind Consistency >> Inspiration
28. Decent resources Lambda Island, helps with JS intro CLJSJS for importing JS libraries re-frame-template for general awesomeness Clojure for Brave and True — great learning book Parens of the Dead — funky way of learning CLJS Speaking.io — Because “imagine everyone's naked” is terrible advice.
29. (end rant) Thanks! @gregoltsov www.gregory.goltsov.info gregory@goltsov.info