Do you know that you can generate a POM file for your Clojure project and build it with Java’s Maven toolchain? This can be handy in situations when you don’t build locally, but instead hand over the build to a CI/CD pipeline. The Cljfx Hacker News reader app by Vlad Protsenko is a good use case.
In this video, we are building a basic JavaFX application, leveraging Github Actions for the generation of native executables. The build process is performed outside of the traditional Clojure workflows, relying on Meyvn’s capabilities to produce valid POM files which can then be processed by Maven. The second part of the video showcases the live coding aspects of our workflow. Enjoy!
