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There is not a batteries included framework a-la Django or Rails for Clojure. I would argue that is one of the biggest pitfalls to the language/ecosystem. If you are building a web application, you will need to invent the entire thing yourself. There are micro frameworks and tools that exist standalone to deal with HTTP, DB ORM, etc... but that will be an exercise left to the reader.

Some will say this is a good thing (and as a very experienced engineer I will agree) but the barrier to entry for a newbie is quite high in this regard. You have all the rope to hang yourself with - and you will. Especially if you are on a team full of lots of interns and junior folks.



The closest to this (MVC framework with all features including migrations, API building, auth...) is Xiana https://github.com/Flexiana/framework/


This framework looks like an absolute nightmare to use.




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