Over the last few months I learned some more ClojureScript and I finally came back to Angular. First I followed their excellent tutorial. Then I decided to rewrite it to plain Clojure and ClojureScript, and it went pretty well.

I made one change on the go – rather than load JSON files directly from disk, it talks to a Ring-provided service.

Raw files are below:

All code is available at GitHub.

It’s almost a one-to-one rewrite from JavaScript. Compared to the original, it is pretty ugly – for two reasons. The first is that I wanted it to work with advanced Closure compiler, so I had to use explicit dependencies. The second is that there is a lot JavaScript interop.

Many of those issues can be mitigated with a glue layer. It is possible to write functions or macros that would automatically generate array syntax for functions with injected dependencies, create functions automatically converting arguments with clj->js , and provide a better replacement for $scope.property = function(...){...} .

I may do that later, but firstly I wanted to have a one-to-one replacement.