Tutorial part 1

Are you ready to build a web app in Common Lisp?

In this first tutorial we will build a simple app that shows a web form that will search and display a list of products.

In doing so, we will see many necessary building blocks to write web apps in Lisp:

• how to start a server
• how to create routes
• how to define and use path and URL parameters
• how to define HTML templates
• how to run and build the app, from our editor and from the terminal.

In doing so, we’ll experience the interactive nature of Common Lisp and we’ll learn important commands: running sbcl from the command line with a couple options, what is load, how to interactively compile our app with a keyboard shortcut, how to structure a project with an .asd definition and a package, etc.

We expect that you have Quicklisp installed. If not, please see the Cookbook: getting started.

Now let’s get started.

But beware. There is no going back.

(look at the menu and don’t miss the small previous-next arrows on the top right)