clojure Getting started with web development Create new Ring application with http-kit
Example
Ring is de-facto standard API for clojure HTTP applications, similar to Ruby's Rack and Python's WSGI.
We're going to use it with http-kit webserver.
Create new Leiningen project:
lein new app myapp
Add http-kit dependency to project.clj:
:dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.8.0"]
[http-kit "2.1.18"]]
Add :require for http-kit to core.clj:
(ns test.core
(:gen-class)
(:require [org.httpkit.server :refer [run-server]]))
Define ring request handler. Request handlers are just functions from request to response and response is just a map:
(defn app [req]
{:status 200
:headers {"Content-Type" "text/html"}
:body "hello HTTP!"})
Here we just return 200 OK with the same content for any request.
Start the server in -main function:
(defn -main
[& args]
(run-server app {:port 8080}))
Run with lein run and open http://localhost:8080/ in browser.
