Caveman

Caveman

What this is

Caveman is a simple and lightweight framework for building web applications. It provides a basic structure for handling requests and responses, making it easy to get started with web development. Caveman is designed to be highly customizable and extensible.

Installation

lein reclj add caveman

Key concepts

The most important APIs and patterns in Caveman include:

• defroute: defines a new route for handling requests
• html: generates HTML responses
• json: generates JSON responses
• context: provides access to the current request and response objects

Example:

(defroute "/" []
  (html "Hello, World!"))

Correct usage patterns

Here are some real code examples from the documentation:

; define a route for the root URL
(defroute "/" []
  (html "Welcome to my website!"))

; define a route for handling form submissions
(defroute "/submit" [:post]
  (let [name (params "name")
        email (params "email")]
    (html (str "Hello, " name "!"))))

Common mistakes to avoid

Some common mistakes to avoid when using Caveman include:

• Forgetting to specify the request method for a route
• Not handling errors correctly
• Not using the context object to access request and response data

File and folder conventions

In a typical Caveman project, files live in the following locations:

• src/clj: Clojure source code
• resources/public: static files (e.g. images, CSS, JavaScript)
• resources/templates: HTML templates
• config: configuration files (e.g. database connections, API keys)