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by neilyio 752 days ago
And when you're ready to take the fun to the web, look no further than Biff: https://biffweb.com
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I love this so much. The power of being able to connect a repl to your production instance and fix bugs instantly is hard to understate. It’s actually kind of hard to explain to devs used to deployment cycles measured in weeks
How is the fix committed once you are done? Does this run counter to immutable deployments?
Do not try to "commit" or "immutably deploy" lisp data/code. That's impossible. Instead.. Only try to realize the truth.

There is no "commit" / "deploy".

I recently went through most of the Biff tutorial but found it seemed to be missing some parts later on that had me scratching my head. It was otherwise a very enjoyable experience and Biff seems like a great way to get a "batteries included" starting point for web (similar to something like Rails or Django, though maybe not as comprehensive as either of those).
Mind sharing the parts of the tutorial you had trouble with, if you remember?
I'll see if I can go back and figure out where I lost track of things. I believe it was right around when making the message entry box functional. I ended up having to dig into the repo to see what I was missing.
Good to know--I'll do another run through the tutorial sometime and see if I notice anything. I know there are a couple things I need to update in the example repo at least.
Ah neat. But darn, I was kinda hoping for supporting tools and packages with names like tannen, delorean, doc, mcfly, and strickland ;)
It features a time-travel database, if that helps!

https://biffweb.com/p/xtdb-compared-to-other-databases/

I don't know if op had chance to evaluate because they were outatime.