Clerk: Local-First Notebooks for Clojure
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Clerk is a local‑first notebook system that integrates with an editor‑connected REPL to keep code in plain Clojure namespaces and handle big data (a 2.5M‑character string, a 230k‑word split) with lazy loading and static analysis and caching for incremental computation. Custom viewers are simple maps of predicates and render functions that produce SVG, Vega, Plotly and interactive widgets; viewers can call back to the JVM via Clerk’s eval API. Notebooks export as static sites using build-static-app and the demos all render and interact as shown.
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