clj-commons/aleph

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2590 stars · 241 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Aleph is a Clojure library for asynchronous network communication built on Netty, providing an HTTP server and client plus raw TCP and UDP support. It exposes network data as Manifold streams that interoperate with core.async, Java InputStreams, and Clojure sequences.

Use cases

• build an async HTTP server in Clojure
• make non-blocking HTTP client requests
• serve server-sent events with streamed responses
• run a Ring-compliant web server with async handlers
• stream data over raw TCP or UDP sockets
• support HTTP/2 with SSL in Clojure services
• bridge Netty performance with idiomatic Clojure streams

When to choose

• you need asynchronous or streaming HTTP in a Clojure application
• you want a drop-in Ring server with async handler support
• you need low-level TCP/UDP access with a unified stream abstraction
• you want Netty's performance without writing Java

When to avoid

• you need a simple synchronous HTTP server and don't care about async
• your project is not on the JVM
• you rely heavily on synchronous Ring middleware that doesn't work with deferred responses

Facets

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http-server http-client websocket streaming middleware web-development backend networking apis jvm jvm-scripting clojure netty manifold ring tcp udp asynchronous reactive-streams

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