Comparing and selecting web API libraries

[Jonathon McKitrick]

I’m looking at Liberator for our first web API project. But I’m also considering Compojure-API and Yada. Any thoughts from anyone who’s done this comparison, or has used one of them?

[Erik Assum]

Hi, 

On my current project, we’re using compojure with liberator. It works, but there are a few down sides as far as I can see:

Compojure is opaque, eg the routing is expressed using functions/macros, where as other routing libs like bidi and reitit

(https://github.com/metosin/reitit) express the routing as data. Also, AFAIK compojure is not bi-directional, if that’s a need you have.

Compojure doesn’t offer coercion/swagger out of the box, but compojure-api fixes that.

Another thing to be aware of is schema vs spec support. Compojure-API has support for both.

As for liberator vs yada, I have noe clear opinion.

Erik.

On 8 Mar 2018, at 17:14, Jonathon McKitrick <jmcki...@gmail.com> wrote:

I’m looking at Liberator for our first web API project. But I’m also considering Compojure-API and Yada. Any thoughts from anyone who’s done this comparison, or has used one of them?

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So it sounds like your choice would be compojure-api, correct?

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[Erik Assum]

As always, the answer is it depends. 

If I were to greenfield some personal project now, I’d probably go with bidi, since I’d probably just end up with two endpoints. One for accepting graphql queries and one for accepting commands. 

At work there is always more requirements, like development speed and maturity which would probably guide me to using compojure-api, the probably safe and boring bet. 

Erik. 

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[Joe R. Smith]

Definitely give Pedestal a look. There is also wonderful Lacinia integration (a Clojure GraphQL library). 

Pedestal’s notable capabilities: https://github.com/pedestal/pedestal/blob/master/README.md#notable-capabilities

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[Daniel]

Yogthos has done an excellent job with luminus-template (https://github.com/luminus-framework/luminus-template).

Sets everything up how I would. Usually just need +<db> +jetty +reagent (if writing a SPA) +auth (if doing user accounts).

So far it's been a good diving board. I'm on my second in-house project and have been able to incorporate everything so far ... I think because it's fairly unopinionated.

[Oliver Hine]

Pedestal also has support for Swagger (along with coercion, validation, serialisation and more) via pedestal-api
https://github.com/oliyh/pedestal-api

[Daniel Compton]

If you're looking at Liberator because of how it lets you write applications that implement much of the HTTP spec then I would suggest also looking at Yada. It was written by Malcolm Sparks (who also contributed to Liberator), and takes HTTP spec compliance very seriously. It gives you a lot of leverage for providing a small resource definition.

On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 6:18 AM Oliver Hine <oliy...@gmail.com> wrote:

Pedestal also has support for Swagger (along with coercion, validation, serialisation and more) via pedestal-api
https://github.com/oliyh/pedestal-api