Is it possible to write the "why" of this framework? What pain-points does this solve that Compojure doesn't solve?
After a quick look, it really looks more like a collection of tools the author likes to use (though the <clj> tags look new, is this a security issue?), like Lobos and parts of Hiccup.
I think it is a pretty good job overall, but the routes are rather verbose. I wish this was a problem people would spend more time solving.
I think this is best seen as a "serving suggestion". Want a web framework? Well, these ingredients work well together. Here's recipe that ties them together.
I suspect some of the new bits could/should probably be split out into a library of their own, leaving CHP itself as pure glue.
Seen this pop up a few times. I'll give it a shot. Anyone that's worked with it a bit want to comment on how it compares/what they like more between it and other Clojure web frameworks like Shoreleave or Pedestal?
Rarely am I so torn about a project's name. The play on PHP's name makes me cringe, but the (not sure if intentional?) play on the California Highway Patrol's acronym makes me thumbs-up.
By "JavaScript generation", this project appears to mean ClojureScript. Weird way of putting it. That's like shipping a C compiler and billing the feature as, "Assembly code generation".
You can get the ClojureScript runtime much smaller by turning on the Closure (with an S) compiler's optimizations. Still gonna be bigger than vanilla JS, but for that you get a much more expressive language and the ability to share client and server side code.
The debate over whether/when it's appropriate to use CLJS is surely not over. Before judging it as impractical, note that a new iOS weather app written in ClojureScript is getting rave reviews: http://keminglabs.com/blog/angular-cljs-weather-app/
After a quick look, it really looks more like a collection of tools the author likes to use (though the <clj> tags look new, is this a security issue?), like Lobos and parts of Hiccup.
I think it is a pretty good job overall, but the routes are rather verbose. I wish this was a problem people would spend more time solving.