title: Best practices in building and deploying Clojure applications: good tutorials?
body: <p>I am new to Clojure, and am beginning to experiment with building an application.  </p>
  
  <p>So far, everything I've seen about tutorials on compiling Clojure programs involves interactivity.  For example, "load up the REPL and type (load-file "this-or-that") to run.  This is fine, but it's not enough.</p>
  
  <p>I am so used to the edit-compile-run idioms of languages like C or Delphi, that I am instinctively driven to make edits, then hit "M-x compile".  </p>
  
  <p>The problem is that "lein uberjar", which I understand is the equivalent to "make", is painfully slow to execute even for a hello world.  So I'm going to have to figure out how this "interactive development" stuff works, stop using the uberjar like it's quick make, and save it only for the end of the day.</p>
  
  <p>Another thing I noticed while building (using lein uberjar) is that the small GUI app I am working on pops up frames in the compilation process, as if they are <em>executing</em> while compiling.  It just seems a bit counterintuitive to me;  it is not quite as analogous to "make" as I had thought.</p>
  
  <p>I know the Lisp way of developing things is interactively working in the REPL, and I am not trying to change that: I would like to adapt to this way of life.   Unfortunately, I have seen little in the form of documentation on how to do so.  For instance, how to reset the current state of the machine.  It just seems kind of messy to just keep compiling individual snippets on the fly without being able to do some sort of reset.</p>
  
  <p>Most tutorials I have seen on Clojure (and Lisp) in general seem to focus on hacking in the REPL.  Best practices on the deployment of applications remains a mystery to me.  My users are just going to be users;  they are not going to be developers that are going to load files into a REPL.</p>
  
  <p>So here is my question:  any resources for good information or tutorials on the entire process of building a Clojure application, including deployment?  </p>
  
  <p>(Note: I have all of the prerequisites installed and working (e.g. Emacs, Slime, Leiningen, etc.), so this is not a question about that).</p>