A Clojure Jekyll adventure: A Wet side quest (Wet 0.3.0 released)

I ventured far and wide on my Clojure Jekyll adventure right after the last check-in. Then, fatigue (and life) caught up with me, and I had to set up camp for a little while.

The other day, I went on a little side quest and officially released my fork’s changes to the Liquid templating library Wet 💧.

This is the third part of the series: “A Clojure Jekyll adventure”. If you’re curious about what happened on the previous part of my journey, check out: Getting my feet wet with Liquid.

The library is now at version 0.3.0, indicating that new features have been added, but I still don’t think it is ready to be tagged as version 1.0.0.

For a quick recap, here’s what’s new:

• render tag with parameters, allowing to isolate reusable template parts.
• comment tag, because not everything needs to end up in the “final product”.
• empty type for assertions like: {% if coll == empty %}

I put some serious effort into cracking “Whitespace control” (stripping unnecessary adjacent whitespaces controlled by special Liquid tags), but it proved to be a tough nut. I suspect it will take fundamental changes to the original implementation to get it right without overcomplicating the code. However, it might just be me — I still don’t fully understand the Wet library and Instaparse. Any help would be much appreciated!

As I teased earlier, I also made significant progress on the Clojure Jekyll clone. But after being defeated by ‘Whitespace control’, I needed some time to recover before I had the energy to write a blog post.

Originally, I planned to share details about the clone’s progress in this post, but it became too lengthy and unfocused, so I decided to dedicate a separate blog post to it instead.

Stay tuned.

Plus, I get to create another awesome picture for it with Midjourney. 🖼️