Understanding Specter: Clojure's missing piece

[@nbme-answers]

0:24 toc 1:22 why you might use specter 9:25 how it works 15:35 what can you do with it?

[@indigo0086]

Great introduction. I am just getting around to it but it quickly shows why it was created when doing anything less than trivial in clojure.

[@Misophistful]

Thanks!

[@sublimemmNoLink]

amazing video, amazing library. Many thanks.

[@Misophistful]

Thank you for taking the time to comment. I appreciate it!

[@code_explorations]

Great video. Very interesting tool. Thanks!

[@ertugrulcetin9136]

That's awesome video, thank you!

[@Misophistful]

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[@teaingeneva]

if my data looked like this.... [{:value "ship"} [:value "tokyo"]] how can i return the string ship/tokyo . Do I have to revert to normal clojure or would this data break spector?

[@Misophistful]

Specter's MAP-VALS navigator can grab those values for you, then you can use normal Clojure to join the strings together.

[@moy4604]

Blow my mind ! Thanks

[@viktorschepik9397]

Thanks for this video. Now I got the idea of Specter. Was struggling with it before seeing this video.

[@Misophistful]

Thanks for your comment, and I'm really glad I could help you with understanding Specter.

[@teaingeneva]

If i wanted the specific full path down to a value , how can I return the path along with the value? Fantastic presentation btw.

[@Misophistful]

That's a good question, and I don't know the answer. I'd suggest asking it in the #specter channel in the Clojurian's Slack community.

[@katerinagrin243]

Thank you, it was very helpful

[@sinitarium]

I like! Thank you very much!! Excellent intro video!!!

[@vincentdm3970]

Great video. Thanks!

[@Misophistful]

Thanks!

[@diegonayalazo]

Thanks

[@ErikaKuykendall]

Do you type on a Dvorak keyboard? I ask because exclamation point instead of double quotes don't make any sense as a typo on a normal qwerty keyboard

[@Misophistful]

Guilty as charged! (And well spotted). Although, those keys are also next to each other on the Swedish keyboard layout (on the 1 & 2 keys), so Dvorak isn't the only layout I could have been using. :)

[@DmitryFomin]

the same in Russian keyboards - 1 & 2 keys

[@roberthaisfield3349]

Do you know a good resource about how to query nested data structures in Clojure when you don't know the exact schema/shape ahead of time? I've been learning Specter but haven't figured out the recursive stuff yet, so seems hard with unknown data. Alternatively, could you make the video? 😁 I’d like to query without knowing how many levels deep I would like the query to go.

[@Misophistful]

Hi Robert, I'd suggest asking this question in Specter's Slack channel (clojurians.slack.com/archives/C0FVDQLQ5).

[@leobm27]

What kind of clipboard tool is this in the video? Is this an editor plugin?

[@Misophistful]

It's a macOS app called Paste (pasteapp.me)

[@nativesun7661]

Great video!

[@Misophistful]

Thank you!

[@sobanya_228]

This is like dynamic lenses.

[@ChumX100]

"Data Manipulation" just sounds wrong.