# Difference between clj-new and deps-new

**URL:** https://clojureverse.org/t/difference-between-clj-new-and-deps-new/11200
**Category:** Beginners
**Tags:** tooling
**Created:** [February 7, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/difference-between-clj-new-and-deps-new/11200 "2025-02-07T17:04:41Z")
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### Author: ![dawkrish](https://clojureverse.org/user_avatar/clojureverse.org/dawkrish/32/5671_2.png) [@dawkrish](https://clojureverse.org/u/dawkrish)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/difference-between-clj-new-and-deps-new/11200/1 "2025-02-07T17:04:41Z")

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I want to use clj and deps.  
How can I bootstrap/scallfold projects?

Whats the difference between clj-new and deps-new ?

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### Author: ![p-himik](https://clojureverse.org/user_avatar/clojureverse.org/p-himik/32/4137_2.png) [@p-himik](https://clojureverse.org/u/p-himik)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2025, 5:21pm UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/difference-between-clj-new-and-deps-new/11200/2 "2025-02-07T17:21:54Z")

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Quoting Sean Corfield’s [comment](https://clojurians.slack.com/archives/CLX41ASCS/p1719509016926309?thread_ts=1719467984.136899&cid=CLX41ASCS) on Slack:

> Re: clj-new – that should be considered “legacy” at this point and deps-new should generally be used instead.  
> clj-new supports legacy templates (lein, boot) but those templates generally produce projects based on Leiningen or Boot. So that doesn’t help you with the Clojure CLI 🙂  
> deps-new is more declarative and is focused on Clojure CLI projects. I think all deps-new templates produce CLI-based projects (but, hey, a template can produce whatever the author wants!).

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### Author: ![dawkrish](https://clojureverse.org/user_avatar/clojureverse.org/dawkrish/32/5671_2.png) [@dawkrish](https://clojureverse.org/u/dawkrish)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2025, 4:27am UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/difference-between-clj-new-and-deps-new/11200/3 "2025-02-08T04:27:17Z")

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Thanks, will be using that from now on.

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### Author: ![system](https://clojureverse.org/uploads/default/original/2X/5/51079bf9e4b7d9466242c06cf1e43b9f8bd6da14.png) [@system](https://clojureverse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/difference-between-clj-new-and-deps-new/11200/4 "2025-08-09T16:27:40Z")

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