pedestal/pedestal

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2779 stars · 315 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

Pedestal is a set of Clojure libraries for building server-side services, APIs, and web applications on the JVM. It provides an interceptor-based architecture with routing, async request handling, SSE/WebSocket support, and integrated logging, metrics, and OpenTelemetry tracing.

Use cases

• build REST APIs in Clojure
• create a web service backend on the JVM
• serve server-sent events and WebSockets
• deploy a Clojure app as a WAR in a servlet container
• add metrics and tracing to a Clojure HTTP service
• build a small web server that scales up as the app grows

When to choose

• you are building backend services or APIs in Clojure
• you want secure-by-default HTTP handling with CSRF protection and secure headers
• you need asynchronous request handling or first-class SSE/WebSocket support
• you want integrated logging, metrics, and OpenTelemetry tracing out of the box

When to avoid

• you are not working in Clojure or on the JVM
• you need a full-stack frontend framework rather than a server-side library
• you prefer a minimal single HTTP handler without an interceptor model

Facets

framework · maturity active

web-framework http-server routing middleware websocket logging monitoring tracing api-framework security testing web-development backend apis developer-tools jvm cross-platform clojure jetty http-kit server-sent-events interceptors servlet-api open-telemetry war-deployment web-server

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