We ranked the most popular Clojure projects on Github by the most number of stars.


A few notes on the ranking methodology:

  • The ranking data is is of Sep 2015.
  • We removed projects like problem sets, cookbooks etc...
  • We only included projects where the language was equal to Clojure on the GitHub search

Project Name

Description

Stars

Forks

clojure/clojurescript

Clojure to JS compiler

4,293

877

clojure/clojure

The Clojure programming language

4593

805

technomancy/leiningen

Automate Clojure projects without setting your hair on fire.

2,629

186

weavejester/compojure

A concise routing library for Ring/Clojure

2,256

355

aphyr/riemann

A network event stream processing system, in Clojure.

2,164  

229

incanter/incanter

Clojure-based, R-like statistical computing and graphics environment for the JVM

1,488

89

tonsky/datascript

Immutable database and Datalog query engine for Clojure, ClojureScript and JS

1,417

102

ztellman/aleph

asynchronous communication for clojure

1,368

270

Prismatic/schema

Clojure(Script) library for declarative data description and validation

1190

115

weavejester/hiccup

Fast library for rendering HTML in Clojure

1188

101

Prismatic/plumbing

Prismatic's Clojure(Script) utility belt

1,149

81

cgrand/enlive

a selector-based (à la CSS) templating and transformation system for Clojure

1124

128

marick/Midje

Midje provides a migration path from clojure.test to a more flexible, readable, abstract, and gracious style of testing

1093

102

korma/Korma

Tasty SQL for Clojure.

1,029

184

clojure/core.async

Facilities for async programming and communication in Clojure

997

101

daveray/seesaw

Seesaw turns the Horror of Swing into a friendly, well-documented, Clojure library

948

112

cemerick/friend

An extensible authentication and authorization library for Clojure Ring web applications and services.

943

296

mmcgrana/ring

Clojure web application library: abstracts HTTP to allow modular and concise webapps

901

296

clojure-liberator/liberator

Liberator is a Clojure library for building RESTful applications.

881

109

stuartsierra/component

Managed lifecycle of stateful objects in Clojure

871

51