ClojureScript & User Interfaces: Simplicity yields Possibilities

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Explains concrete gains from ClojureScript: building a TodoMVC in 13 lines, a drawing history UI in 60 lines, and a web-audio patcher that serializes global app state with Transit so users copy/paste patches — the clipboard component is 17 lines and hot-restores audio nodes across windows. Demonstrates Om, then Reagent, chestnut/figwheel/tenzing for hot swapping, shows core.async for callback cleanup, and cites production use (CircleCI) and faster, more predictable UI development.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:10cljs + gui simplicity yields possibilities
3. 0:47the things I dare to build
4. 1:02guis are nice, programming them not so
5. 2:26introducing: the horror called state
6. 4:102012: soulseekjs a p2p filesharing web app.
7. 13:36time travelling being able to traverse back and forth in time aka. undo/redo.
8. 14:51introspection see what data runs under the hood/gui.

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