Content Library

This is a collection of additional content—how-to guides, code snippets, videos, essays, anything—to help you be productive with and deepen your understanding of Biff. Contributions welcome.

Essays

• Why I like Clojure as a solo developer
• Should you use Biff?
• Philosophy of Biff
• Understanding htmx
• XTDB compared to other databases

How-to guides

• Use Postgres instead of XTDB
• Use re-frame instead of htmx
• Use the Stripe API
• Start a Stripe checkout session with the Java SDK
• Use Electric
• Use XTDB as a session store
• Connect to nREPL with vim-iced
• Upload images to S3
• Add a toggle button for dark mode
• Make Cider use `bb dev` to start the REPL

Videos

• Deploying to a DigitalOcean droplet
• The Design of Biff