Electric Clojure – A signals DSL for full-stack web UI
Not to be a downer, but while I think in theory this sounds interesting, and treating frontend and backend differences as a DAG that is compiled for the different environments seems cool, I'm skeptical that it would actually be productive in a large application.<p>One thing I'd be particularly concerned about is debugging. One of the things that's on the roadmap is "developer experience", and I don't see any particular debug docs or helpers, so it tells me that if there is a bug somewhere debugging it is going to be a pain, even more so because I won't easily be able to see whether the problem is my client or server code as they live together and are compiled into separate things. As a critique the fact that developer experience is on the roadmap rather than thought about from the beginning is a little off-putting, but maybe that's not what was meant here.<p>Another thing that gives me hesitation is that I can't see how I would extend the setup to support offline capable applications. This is increasingly becoming a big thing for web+desktop apps, does this easily support that?<p>Lastly, the docs seem to point to use a homegrown DOM library, rather than one of the major players. How easily would this work with a library like Reagent, Helix, or UIx?