I'm very curious. Could you explain what is so special about clojurescript and why wouldn't it be possible to build your business with react and typescript?
The complexity would have been too much if I didn't have Clojure and ClojureScript. They let me remove a lot of incidental complexity and deal mostly with the problem domain (which is complex enough).
You can do anything with any language/technology, it's just a question of how many resources you are willing to dedicate to the task. In my case, as a solo bootstrapper, the resources are very limited.
Main advantages:
* a single language for both client-side (browser) code and server-side code
* a single data representation (maps with namespace-qualified keys), so no conversions necessary
* spec which helps validate data in multiple places (such as :pre/:post conditions)
* core.async which lets me write asynchronous code both in the JVM and in the browser, same primitives
* a library of excellent sequence manipulation functions
* transducers, which let me build composable data pipelines
* the Rum library which lets me use React as a rendering engine, basically a function of my data
* most of my domain code is shared between the browser and the server
There is more, but these were what I could come up with immediately.
I mostly spend time thinking and working on the problem domain, not writing boilerplate (there is none in Clojure, really).
I've been using Clojure for about 12 years now. I don't have any specific pointers, but the Clojure web site is a great starting point. There are plenty of talks from conferences, as well as several good books.
