So, ideally, in my mind, based on a single schema definition, I should be able to fully generate complete Create Read Update Delete (CRUD) in a web-context, that is:
- client: An interactive HTML data table component for the operations, maybe with inline editing etc.
- client: a form component for editing a single record, including validation as deduced from the schema
- server: A route to access the data for populating and updating said components (REST endpoint)
- server: An implementation for persisting the data in, say, an SQL table.
So ideally; i'd just define a schema for, say, a Person datatype with name and surname and address fields, and then call a macro or function like (defcrud Person my-person-schema) and it works, i can go to a webpage, see the datatable, edit/delete data, and save the data all the way to the server.
My question is: is there anything in the clojure world that does something (or partially) as described above?
In my recent first full clj/cljs project, I found myself writing a lot of code for this basic stuff. In the olden days, when I used a GWT framework called SmartGWT, I just had to define a new ListGrid(myDataSource), and define a datasource (equivalent to the schema), and the rest was inferred (at least something with sensible defaults was).
The SmartGWT kind of high level of development is what enables true rapid prototyping for the kind of business apps I need to build quite often. GWT has its own drawbacks, like very slow compilation time for bigger apps, and the fact that I have to write Java, but it's the level of server-client integration out-of-the-box that I'm looking for in Clojure.
