To-do list app tutorial recommendations

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#1

Hey Clojure friends :wave::slightly_smiling_face:

I’d like to ask what your recommendations are for to-do list app tutorials in Clojure/ClojureScript.

I did a cursory search on Clojureverse and it seems that there isn’t yet a thread of people’s recommendations (please do correct me if there is!).

In terms of to-do list app walkthroughs / tutorials: What has worked for you? What would you like to see that doesn’t yet exist? What have you wanted to try, but felt it was too challenging / inaccessible?

I’m personally interested in what are the typical student/learner app architectures/designs versus how people working in the industry tend to do, even if only for smaller / “trivial” apps.

Context / Rationale: I’m attempting to build my own (opinionated) to-do list app, and I’d like to learn from others on how they approached similar projects. You can see where it is today 2021/08/16 as well as hopefully some progress in the fuuuture :grin:

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#2

Here’s one I made GitHub - henryw374/firebase-clojurescript-todo-list: tutorial on setting up a simple todo list app with cl, the aim of which is to show that creating a Firebase app with Clojurescript doesn’t need any wrapper libraries.

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#3

A feature I’d like to see in a to-do list is for prioritization to be relative, not absolute. I’d like to be able to add 3 new, equal priority tasks above ‘Priority 1’. Or rather for them to be the new P1 and for everything else to move down a level.

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#4

@henry_w What would the rationales be for having auth and database?

I’m personally interested to go simpler as possible, to simply have a static host capable of serving a simple localstorage or cookie saving to-do list - and an even simpler app could do away with persistence.

#5

@Andy_Wootton Have you heard of AutoFocus? It might be what you are looking for. Here’s a 3rd party summary as well as the original author themselves’ blog post on the method.

#6

I am enjoying reading this post on a simple command line to-do list app here: Creating a TODO cli with Clojure - DEV Community

I believe this kind of simplicity is close to what I’m hoping to recreate in terms of architecture and scope.

#7

Auth and database is probably what would start to differentiate a beginner/student/learner from what the industry will ask of a professional.

I doubt many people nowadays contract developers to have them build a local only application.

It’ll be pretty common to want at the minimum a way to sync across all your devices, if not straight up cloud storage.

And as soon as you ask for that, well auth will be needed, since people will tend to not want their data be made public or for anyone to get easy access of or to have it leak.

I think this is also where people will most struggle, since without a framework Clojure throws you in with the lions. Going from no DB to a DB with auth is a big jump, being able to run, maintain, and secure a DB, manage migrations, permissions, backups, scale, consistency, etc.

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#8

Todo list apps demonstrate some particular thing, with ‘todo’ being a common set of requirements that’s a step up from “hello, world” but not too complicated.

My one was demoing clojurescript+firebase (the ui lib and build tool are secondary), and e.g. this one is clojurescript+reagent+in-app-tutorial re-learn demo.

If the one you’re thinking of is just demoing clojurescript, that’s great too. Although it will inevitably be clojurescript+some-ui-lib+some-way-of-compiling

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#9

I have created a very basic introductory video to create a simple todo list app in Clojurescript here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRYreGS53Z4

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#10

Have you heard of the TodoMVC project? Open source project where the same Todo app is implemented in a bunch of different languages/frameworks, so that developers can compare them.

I made an implementation in ClojureScript a while ago, and put up the entire development on YouTube.

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#11

I’ve built this one:

Here the corresponding blog post:

https://maxweber.github.io/blog/2019-08-20-introducing-db-view-part-3

The approach is still in use today in our 2 SaaS businesses.

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#12

Just a quick update, I wanted to share that I got stuck trying to refactor my code to work with a FSM. My intention was to avoid using imperative style loops and non-idiomatic Clojure code. I believe I need better study references to enable me to implement clean state changes in the program. So, towards that effort, here’s my research:

Research 2021_11_01 Todo List Apps (for CLI & Web)

Note: Starring is my way of “highlighting” my next items to investigate. I’m particularly interested in “tiny” apps with fewer technologies*

  1. Todo App w/ “clean architecture” & gentle intro to clojure.spec, made with Clojure, SQLite, re-frame GitHub - brianium/clean-todos: A todo example leveraging clean architecture in Clojure + retrospect: GitHub - brianium/clean-todos: A todo example leveraging clean architecture in Clojure :star::star::star:
    Todo CLI inspired by todo.txt w/ Clojure, environ, Ring, Compjure, Liberator, & hexagonal architecture: GitHub - mgryszko/todo-clj: TODO manager :star::star::star:
  2. Todo App using Posh & DataScript: GitHub - mpdairy/posh-todo: An example todo application using Posh
  3. Todo Service demoing the Hypermedia Application Protocol and Transit: GitHub - alexanderkiel/hap-todo: Example ToDo Service demonstrating HAP. + walkthrough: hap-todo/walkthrough.md at master · alexanderkiel/hap-todo · GitHub :star::star::star:
  4. Tiny Todo CLI that works with a todo.txt file: GitHub - PrasannaGnanaraj/todo-cli: a todo cli utility made using clojure :star::star::star:
  5. Todo app using Reagent, Re-frame and Posh with DataScript sync: GitHub - kristianmandrup/todo-poshy: Todo app using Reagent, Re-frame and Posh with DataScript sync
  6. Todo Web App using ClojureScript & Om-Next for a talk at Clojure Meetup Düsseldorf: GitHub - n2o/todo-cljs: Small todo application written in ClojureScript and om-next for my talk at Clojure Meetup Düsseldorf + talk slides ClojureScript und om-next - Christian Meter + does a recording link exist? :star::star::star:
  7. Todo App using DataScript GitHub - tonsky/datascript-todo: DataScript ToDo Sample Application with working demo: ToDo :star::star::star:
  8. MVC-style Todo App GitHub - marlabrizel/todo-clj: A simple todo app in clojure which uses Compojure, Ring, Hiccup, PostgreSQL, Lein Ring with short write-up on learning insights
  9. Todo App using: Clojure, AngularJS, Karma, Leiningen, Bower, Protractor, Liquibase, Midje, Korma, REST: GitHub - behrica/todo-clojure
  10. Todo App using Clojure & Ring: GitHub - biezhi/clojure-todo-list: The todo-list application that used clojure + ring
  11. Todo App using ClojureScript, Reagent, and Bonsai: GitHub - Olical/cljs-todo: Simple ClojureScript to do list example using Reagent and Bonsai with live recording of dev on YouTube: Simple todo list with ClojureScript and Reagent - YouTube
  12. Service Driven Todo Web App using: Clojure, ClojureScript, Monger, Enfocus, Noir, and Fetch. Created for CinJug April 2012 Presentation. GitHub - ckirkendall/The-Great-Todo: Sample service-driven web application using Clojure, ClojureScript, Monger, Enfocus, Noir, and Fetch. Created for CinJug April 2012 Presentation.
  13. Todo MVC App using the pedestal framework: GitHub - janherich/todo-mvc-pedestal: todo-mvc application implemented with pedestal framework
  14. Todo MVC App using vaadin UI library: GitHub - wizardpb/todo: Canonical ToDoMVC application built with Clojure and functional-vaadin UI library
  15. Todo Web App using Component, pedestal, and PostgreSQL (requires docker to run I think…): GitHub - n2o/component-todo-app: Create a Todo-Webapp with Clojure and Component
  16. Todo Backend using Compojure: GitHub - darrenhaken/todo-backend-clojure: Todo backend implemented using Clojure/Compusure http://www.todobackend.com/ based off of http://www.todobackend.com/ :star::star::star:
  17. Todo API: GitHub - dking1286/todo-cljs-api: The API server for the world's most overbuilt todo application built with Environ, Ring, Compjure, Transit, PostgreSQL, honeySQL, Cheshire, Ragtime
  18. Super Simple Todo Web App using Pedestal: GitHub - konrad-garus/pedestal-todo: Client-side only TODO app written in Pedestal (Clojure web framework) with awesome code comments!!! pedestal-todo/app.cljs at master · konrad-garus/pedestal-todo · GitHub :star::star::star:
  19. Todo Backend API spec using Pedestal & Datomic: GitHub - mtnygard/todo-backend-pedestal: An implementation of the Todo Backend spec using Pedestal and Datomic
  20. Todo Backend API spec using Clojure, Ring, Reitit & next-jdbc: GitHub - prestancedesign/todo-backend-reitit: Clojure/Reitit/next.jdbc implementation of the Todo-Backend API spec with running demo: Todo-Backend client :star::star::star:
  21. Todo Web App built with ClojureScript, Reagent, re-frame, Kee-Frame: GitHub - alephyud/todo-split: A simple ClojureScript / re-frame app.
  22. Todo Web App built with Reagent with instructions on how to deploy to Heroku: GitHub - kakoi-to-pirat/todo-reagent: Todo list on reagent framework with demo: https://enigmatic-sands-22935.herokuapp.com/todo :star::star::star:
  23. Todo Web App in Portuguese (?): GitHub - souenzzo/todo-demo: from lambda.io from a Lambda.IO meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Lambda-I-O-Sampa-Meetup/events/255279405/ :star::star::star:
  24. Simple Todo Web App in Japanese built with Ring & Compojure: GitHub - daisea3e1203/todo-clj :star::star::star:
  25. Todo Web App (server-side) built with Ring & Compojure: GitHub - practicalli/clojure-todo-list-example: A Todo List server-side webapp built with Ring & Compojure :star::star::star:
  26. Todo App that can be run as a CLI (?): GitHub - plandes/todo-task: A Supervised Approach To The Interpretation Of Imperative To-Do Lists with a research paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.07999.pdf :star::star::star:
  27. Todo Web App built with ClojureScript, Reagent: GitHub - oxalorg/clojure-todo: Clojure, ClojureScript, Reagent end-to-end example with live coding: ClojureScript with React (Reagent) - A simple todo app - YouTube :star::star::star:
  28. Todo CLI built in ONLY CLOJURE: GitHub - rsachdeva/todo-tasks-summer-holidays: Clojure Command line app to build entered todo lists for summer tasks. :star::star::star:
  29. Todo Web App Server (WIP ?) : GitHub - jg/todo-webapp-server
  30. Todo REPL (CLI ?) Web App built with Compojure, Ring, Hiccup, Prettytime-NLP, and Friend: GitHub - Pance/todo-repl-webapp: A web application that lets you manage todos in Clojure
  31. Todo Android App GitHub - alex-gherega/colored-todo: Simple Android app for training your memory and organize yourself via TODOs - it's all so colorful. :star::star::star:
  32. Todo App using ClojureScript and React-Native: GitHub - joshuamiller/map-todo-demo: A demo app using ClojureScript and React-Native (this shows how different builds are configured map-todo-demo/project.clj at master · joshuamiller/map-todo-demo · GitHub)
  33. Todo MVC App built with ClojureScript, ShadowCLJS, and Helix: GitHub - lilactown/helix-todo-mvc :star::star::star:
  34. Todo Backend API Spec built with Compojure, Ring, java-jdbc, and PostgreSQL: GitHub - akiellor/todo-backend-compojure
  35. Todo CLI with mouse support built with Membrane, Lanterna, & GraalVM: GitHub - phronmophobic/terminal-todo-mvc: An example project for a terminal app with mouse support :star::star::star:
  36. Todo Backend API Spec made with Pedestal, Vase, OSv, and Datomic: GitHub - mtnygard/todo-backend-pedestal-vase: A microservice built using Vase, Pedestal, OSv, and Datomic
  37. Todo Web App with DataScript: GitHub - tonsky/datascript-todo: DataScript ToDo Sample Application with demo: ToDo :star::star::star:

* and then also I’m interested in command line apps, architectures designed to facilitate clean separation of concerns (Hexagonal, Polylith, Membrane, etc.), Full-stack Web Dev, Pedestal, Reagent, Re-frame, GraalVM, Datomic, DataScript, Datalevin… to name a few things.

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#13

Thanks but I was replying to the question, based on past experience. I’m not currently looking for anything.