Speculative Development: Using clojure.spec to write correct, beautifully documented APIs

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In this talk, you will explore how clojure.spec works under-the-hood, how to use it to specify your APIs, and how it can be extended to do arbitrary coercion, documentation generation, and declarative data transformations.

By interpreting what specs mean and extending clojure.spec, you can translate your clojure.spec descriptions into other formats or languages for translation or documentation purposes.

By specifying your domain models, you can go even further and replace deeply-nested data-wrangling functions with declarative spec-to-spec transformations that can be generated from two compatible specs.

Finally, you will discover the open source implementation of these ideas, which adds arbitrary coercion to clojure.spec, enables specs to be translated into other formats (such as json-schema and swagger), and enables compatible spec-to-spec data transformations.

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