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The language isn't what's difficult to grasp or what needs more explanation.

What's missing is current complete examples with the library choices and configuration all worked out.

I wholeheartedly agree. There are so many different ways to set up a project in Clojure that it can be a little overwhelming. There is boot, leiningen and deps.edn for managing dependencies as well as project structure. Then with ClojureScript there is shadow-cljs as well as improvements made with ClojureScript embracing the Javascript tooling by handing off the output of the compiler to a JS bundler.

I'm not sure if this is enough, but I wrote these [0][1] a while ago and if they're not to your taste, I do admit to a fairly offbeat writing style, there's also Luminus[2] and re-frame[3].

They may not be complete enough for your tastes?

I definitely can sympathise with the ecosystem being complex to get into =)...

Take Fathom which I walk through a small fraction of in [0] and [1], there's a lot there. It's being actively worked on and there's a lot of docs to go through. That said Clojure's communities are pretty friendly, you can get pretty far by just finding some example projects, tinkering with them and asking questions =)...

- [0]: https://folcon.github.io/post/fulcro-basics/2020-05-12-Fulcr...

- [1]: https://folcon.github.io/post/fulcro-basics/2020-05-26-Sprin...

- [2]: https://luminusweb.com/docs/guestbook

- [3]: https://purelyfunctional.tv/guide/re-frame-building-blocks/

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