coast VS kit

Compare coast vs kit and see what are their differences.

coast

The fullest full stack clojure web framework (by coast-framework)

kit

Lightweight, modular framework for scalable web development in Clojure (by kit-clj)
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coast kit
5 34
550 447
0.4% 1.1%
0.0 8.0
over 1 year ago 7 days ago
Clojure Clojure
MIT License MIT License
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coast

Posts with mentions or reviews of coast. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-18.
  • Pedestal libs for Data APIs.
    5 projects | /r/Clojure | 18 Sep 2022
    If you want a full-on framework, perhaps Biff, Fulcro, or Coast on Clojure, will meet your needs.
  • what web framework do you use?
    13 projects | /r/Clojure | 20 Jun 2022
    There are a handful of "frameworks" available in Clojure -- some of them are really more like curated collections of libraries than what people in other tech communities might expect (such as Luminus - https://luminusweb.com/ - or its updated cousin Kit - https://kit-clj.github.io/). There's Coast - https://github.com/coast-framework/coast - and Biff - https://biffweb.com/ - and there may be a few others.
  • Coast on Clojure
    1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 5 Apr 2022
    1 project | /r/hackernews | 5 Apr 2022
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Apr 2022
    Looks like this is [mostly Ring + Hiccup](https://github.com/coast-framework/coast/blob/master/deps.ed...) with a DB connection pool.

kit

Posts with mentions or reviews of kit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-09.
  • Ask HN: What is your go-to stack for the web?
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Feb 2024
    Clojure using for the server side https://github.com/kit-clj/kit

    htmx for frontend, using the built-in kit htmx module.

  • Kit – Clojure Web Development
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Dec 2023
  • Why Is Jepsen Written in Clojure?
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Dec 2023
    I am not sure what a web framework is, to be honest. The choices for many parts of a web application are really domain-specific and I'm not sure a single "framework" would work for everyone.

    As far as web-related components go, my app uses Rum (as an interface to React), ring, http-kit, pushy (for history manipulation), sente (for websockets), buddy (for authentication tools).

    If you are looking for a batteries-included "I want to have some sort of webapp right away" thing, I think https://kit-clj.github.io would fit the bill, but the general feeling in the Clojure community is that unlike Python with Django or Ruby with Rails, the choice of app components is not predetermined by the language.

  • A History of Clojure (2020) [pdf]
    22 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Aug 2023
  • Most commonly used libraries/frameworks in Clojure
    2 projects | /r/Clojure | 11 Jun 2023
    Luminus has, in theory, been superseded by Kit: https://kit-clj.github.io/ but even so it is still "an opinionated bundle of libraries" rather than a framework.
  • Is there an open source project focused on ClojureScript, React, Reagent?
    14 projects | /r/Clojure | 24 May 2023
    I learned by using https://luminusweb.com/docs/clojurescript.html to get me started. It gives you a plethora of sane starting points, and you can just work on switching it to your own business logic. Troubleshooting and adding functionality will usually lead you to understand how things work. The authors of luminus have moved on to build kit: https://kit-clj.github.io/ which is probably another good starting point.
  • Help finding a webdev framework that works out of the box
    6 projects | /r/Clojure | 13 May 2023
  • Clojure Turns 15 panel discussion video
    24 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Feb 2023
    The cljs stack I hear about a lot (and use) is ShadowCLJS with reagent (https://reagent-project.github.io/) and re-frame (https://day8.github.io/re-frame/). ShadowCLJS is more of a build tool, but is really well documented and easy to use. Reagent is basically react but a simpler API, and re-frame is a layer on top of that provides data subscriptions and event-handlers to manage app state. It's overkill for some apps but I find it's actually super easy to work with and not as much complexity as I thought.

    For backend there is luminus (https://luminusweb.com/) or Kit (https://kit-clj.github.io/). They are basically project templates that wire together a ton of popular solutions for various things - database access, migrations, security, html templating, etc. Also includes frontend frameworks like re-frame if you want.

  • your thoughts on the kit framework?
    1 project | /r/Clojure | 10 Jan 2023
    The component itself is just a thin wrapper for conman, you can see it here.
  • Ask HN: Share Your Personal Site
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jan 2023
    Here’s me: https://luciano.laratel.li/

    I was happy I could get the domain! Pretty simple hand-rolled server-rendered site using the kit-clj[0] and neat-css[1]. Main backbone of the site is here[2]. I used to use a CLJS SPA but it was overkill and not as nice to use (load times particularly.)

    [0]: https://kit-clj.github.io/

What are some alternatives?

When comparing coast and kit you can also consider the following projects:

biff - A Clojure web framework for solo developers.

shadow-cljs - ClojureScript compilation made easy

duct - Server-side application framework for Clojure

re-frame - A ClojureScript framework for building user interfaces, leveraging React

re-frame-template - A Leiningen template for creating a re-frame application (client only) with a shadow-cljs build.

panas.reload - a hot reload for babashka serving html+css (or htmx)

react-query - 🤖 Powerful asynchronous state management, server-state utilities and data fetching for TS/JS, React, Solid, Svelte and Vue. [Moved to: https://github.com/TanStack/query]

janet - A dynamic language and bytecode vm

clojure-inertia-pingcrm-demo - PingCRM on Clojure - A Clojure/Script fullstack demo application to illustrate how Inertia.js works.

reagent - A minimalistic ClojureScript interface to React.js

usermanager-reitit-integrant-example - A little demo web app in Clojure, using Integrant, Ring, Reitit, Selmer (and a database)