Warning to early readers

This is a very early work in progress version of Full Stack Lisp. It is incomplete and possibly contains incorrect information. I’m releasing it as a status update and to get early feedback. Constructive criticism is extremely welcome. I hang out in irc on freenode in #lisp and #lispweb and on twitter @pavelpenev. The book also has a dedicated twitter account @fullstacklisp and a web page. Source code is on github. If you find anything wrong with it please open an issue.

Current Status

Each section of the book is in one of the following states(ordered by proximity to completion):

• To be written
• Early draft
• Late draft
• Needs editing
• Done

The current status of book is as follows

• Frontmatter (Needs editing)
• Part I
  • Chapter 1: Roswell (Late Draft)
  • Chapter 2: Lisp libraries (Early draft)

    Some parts are missing and will possibly be expanded beyond that at a later stage

  • Chapter 3: Editing Lisp (Early draft)

    Many sections are TBW, some parts might get rewritten. Additionally I’ll eventually cover the Atom editor.

• Part II
  • Chapter 4: Caveman2 (Early draft)

    Very early draft, possibly subject to a complete rewrite. Many missing parts.

What remains to be written

Current plans include:

• A chapter walking the reader through developing a simple wiki app

  Will include detailed information on Caveman2’s features, including a detailed Djula tutorial, more Envy examples, and an introduction to it’s DB layer.

• A chapter on alternatives

  Caveman uses Djula for templating and datafly/sxql for DB access. We’ll introduce alternatives, such as s-expression based HTML generation and various database libraries

• A basic Ironclad tutorial

  Introduction to ironclad and how to properly store passwords, API keys, ect.

• A chapter on frontend tools.

  Tools to help with CSS and writing JavaScript such as paredit

• A chapter on deployment

  From a simple Nginx setup to using docker with common lisp

Additional ideas

I have some other ideas that might not make it into the book, such as:

• A chapter on Restful services
• Building desktop apps in a webview
• Packaging executables

If you have other ideas and they seem like they might be in the scope of the book, I’d love to hear from you!

Thank you!

Thank you for reading this early draft! Feedback is extremely crucial at this phase of the project. I might be painting myself into a corner and the only way to know is if somebody tells me. Thank you especially if you bought the book through leanpub. I’m currently self-funding this project, which is a fancy way of saying I’m burning through my savings to write and I don’t know how much I’ll be able to finish before they run out. Your contribution is greatly appreciated and is of great help!