eoinhurrell / erinite

A hydrous arseniate of copper, of an emerald-green color; -- so called from Erin, or Ireland, where it occurs.

Erinite

A hydrous arseniate of copper, of an emerald-green color; -- so called from Erin, or Ireland, where it occurs

Erinite is a web framework for interactive web applications. Erinite allows the development of both server and client in Clojure(Script) as highly decoupled, reactive, composable components.

WARNING: Erinite is pre-alpha and should be considered experimental

WARNING 2: Erinite is still very early and does not yet meet the design goals

Rationale

Design Goals

• Loose coupling between components
• Easy independent testing of components
• Simulate components; support recording and playback of execution
• Designer friendly development of UI templates
• Reactive user interaction logic
• Empower interactive development

The following secondary goals exist to enable to above:

• Data-centric design
• Reloadable, restartable compontents
• Communication through functional-reactive messaging
• Ease of hooking in interactive tools
• REPL friendly API

An auxiliary goal of Erinite is to make use of existing libraries and tools where possible, to avoid duplication of effort and to allow libraries to be replaced or removed as appropriate. A core philosophy of Clojure is to write small composable libraries and Erinite should embrace this philosophy whenever possible.

These goals were chosen so that applications written using Erinite are easy to develop, easy to test, easy to think about, easy to modify and easy to extend, even when implementing complex logic or operating at scale. It is dificult to know future requirements, so enabling quick, safe (breaking changes are caught early) and convenient modification is the only way to stay ahead of the competition.

Design Overview

License

Copyright © 2014 Actionable Insight Software Ltd.

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License either version 1.0 or (at your option) any later version.