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The Immutable Frontend in ClojureScript

The video is up for a talk I gave at QCon 2014 in which I spoke about the benefits of using immutable data to build a frontend and my experience working on Prismatic’s ClojureScript web application.

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Brief summary: Mutable state is ubiquitous in UI programming and contributes to large amounts of additional complexity and bugs. Functional reactive data-flows can greatly simplify rendering logic and state management. ClojureScript’s immutable data structures pair nicely with React.js to build UIs that are declarative and performant.