From 387a85eb352b74fa9dc51675ebadd8b3122c9fe4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: daigotanaka Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 15:39:47 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add Motivation in README --- README.md | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 8852b9d..4284e64 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # MERN-Cljs -What is it? +## What is it? - A web stack with [MongoDB](https://docs.mongodb.org/manual/introduction/) @@ -18,6 +18,16 @@ What is it? For now, this repository serves to share the knowledge on how to achieve above and I don't intend to release a library or framework :) +## Motivation + +I wanted to build web application very quickly. I find predominantly functional +language such as Clojure to be a very powerful choice for speeding up the +application development. Meanwhile, I wanted to leverage the development +by the tools other people built and tested well already. So I chose to combine +ClojureScript and node.js. This way, I can take advantage of very rich set of +JavaScript libraries managed by [npm](https://www.npmjs.com). I don't have to +switch language (e.g. Python <-> JavaScript) to develop backend and frontend. + ## What you need to install 1. Node.js