Have you ever wanted to have a basic single-page application you can hack on when you want to learn some Clojure? Have you ever wanted to use npm libraries from ClojureScript? Do you want to build simple Reagent apps?

This course shows you step-by-step how to build a simple application and deploy it, for free, to the web. The application we build is a simple, browser-based Markdown editor with a live preview. As you type Markdown, you can see what the rendered HTML looks like.

Further, we make it bi-directional. You can edit Markdown and render to HTML, or you can edit the HTML and render to Markdown. It's all live and fluent, thanks to Reagent's powerful state management and reactive HTML components.

This video course walks you through the installation and setup of the project, integration with npm libraries, adding the features and building the GUI, and finally deploying to Netlify. The course concludes with future directions you can take the project.

A project of your own

The coolest thing about starting small is that you have a good base to build on. Sure, this is just a small app, but it has a continuous deployment workflow. You push changes to GitHub and Netlify will build the ClojureScript and deploy the new assets. That means changes are easy. Think of it not as a small project but as the beginning of something you can learn from.

Having a project like this that you can build on means in a few hours on the weekend, you could add new features. You could re-design it. Or integrate it with a backend. After a few of your own touches, you have a portfolio project worthy of your resume. You have learned a lot and have something to show for it. Take this step small toward a career in Clojure and show yourself your commitment to learning.