Improving Large Clojure Codebases with Biff: Lessons from Rewriting Yakread
By
PaulHoule
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Summary
The article discusses the author's experience rewriting a reading app, Yakread, from scratch and open-sourcing it. The author uses this project to experiment with new features for Biff, a Clojure web framework, focusing on improving the manageability of large codebases. Insights are drawn from both the original Yakread codebase (10k lines) and a larger work project (85k lines).
Key quotes
· 3 pulledI've been making some progress on rewriting Yakread (a fancy reading app) from ~scratch and open-sourcing it in the process.
Along the way I'm experimenting with potential new features for Biff, my Clojure web framework, which Yakread is built with.
I've also learned some things from contributing to our ~85k-line Clojure codebase at work.
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