clojure-liberator/liberator

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1261 stars · 126 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

Liberator is a Clojure library for building RESTful applications by defining resources that automatically comply with the HTTP specification (RFC-2616). It provides Ring-compatible handlers with built-in features like content negotiation, conditional requests, and caching, inspired by Erlang's Webmachine.

Use cases

• build restful apis in clojure
• expose data as http resources with correct status codes
• add content negotiation to ring handlers
• implement conditional requests and etag caching
• create http-compliant web services on the jvm

When to choose

• you're building REST APIs in Clojure on top of Ring
• you want automatic HTTP spec compliance including caching and content negotiation
• you prefer a declarative, decision-graph model for resource handling

When to avoid

• you need a full web framework with routing and templating built in
• you're not using Clojure or the JVM
• you need a library under very active development, as releases have slowed since 2021

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

web-framework http-server middleware web-development backend apis jvm jvm-scripting rest ring http-spec-compliance content-negotiation webmachine-inspired web-server

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