Leiningen is a build automation and dependency management tool for the simple configuration of software projects written in the Clojure programming language.
The aim of the project is summarised in the project’s tag line, “Automate Clojure projects without setting your hair on fire”.
Leiningen is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Supplied with a command-line interfaces which offers:
- The generation of a simple Clojure project skeleton.
- Ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation.
- Dependency resolution (with automatic library downloading).
- Start an interactive REPL that has the classpath correctly set to load project dependencies.
- Packaging of project code and dependencies into an “uberjar” .jar file.
- Supports plugins which may introduce new tasks.
Website: leiningen.org
Support: Tutorial, GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Phil Hagelberg, Alex Osborne, Dan Larkin, and contributors
License: Eclipse Public License v1.0
Leiningen is written in Clojure. Learn Clojure with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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