Just an update on this and thanks: Several people provided helpful pointers, leading me on interesting paths and teaching me about cool things like hoplon.
The thing that most easily and fully solved my problem was: https://github.com/fasiha/re-simple-term. Ahmed Fasih (fasiha) was super helpful and produced a really clean and simple way to put a function call on a web page, for people who are not web/javascript programmers and just want to put a Clojurescript function on a web page. I recommend it! If you look at the thing that I made with it, you will immediately confirm that I'm not a web designer :-), and you will probably also be pretty baffled by the content unless you are a mathematician (and maybe even then, because the paper it's based on is still in press): http://hampshire.edu/lspector/dda (and let me know if you want a pre-print of the paper). But it does exactly what I need, and fasiha's project let me put this online without knowing stuff that I haven't had time to learn. FYI the other approach that currently seems most promising to me, for related projects, is to put up a REPL using https://github.com/Lambda-X/re-console/tree/init-demo. Thanks to Andrea Richiardi and Tomek on this. I haven't yet got it fully working, but when I do I think it will be useful in my world of programmers-but-not-web-programmers, for putting online things ranging from text adventure games to genetic programming systems. -Lee On Saturday, March 26, 2016 at 11:06:50 AM UTC-4, Lee wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have a pure Clojure program and I would like to make it run in the > browser on client machines. It has no dependencies other than Clojure, it > does no Java interop, and it has no GUI. There's no database, no user > interaction (except for starting the program), and no networking. It just > computes something and prints text (which goes to the REPL in the Clojure > version). From what I've read, it should run exactly the same in > Clojurescript with no changes. > > For the sake of argument -- and this isn't very far from the truth -- > let's say that I have absolutely no web programming experience, and that I > don't know how to run Clojurescript at all (although I've been using > Clojure for many years). I can produce basic HTML files and I can put files > on a server in a public directory with a known URL, but that's it in terms > of web "programming." And let's suppose that I know absolutely nothing > about Javascript. > > Can anybody tell me or point me to a resource that will tell me how to get > my Clojure program running as a Clojurescript program in a web page? > Ideally, I would like to do this without learning a lot about Javascript or > web programming. I just want this existing, pure Clojure program to run in > a client's browser, running a computation and providing text output. > > Searching for "minimal clojurescript" turns up things much less minimal, > assuming that I know more about Javascript and/or web programming, and/or > that I want something more sophisticated than I've outlined here. > > If I can get this working then I will eventually want something *slightly* > more complex in terms of user interaction: a text field on the page into > which the user can type, and from which my program can read. But aside from > this, and I guess a "Start" button, I need no GUI. > > I would appreciate any pointers that anyone can provide! > > Thanks, > > -Lee > > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
