💾 bloom commons

Commons is a "kitchen-sink" library of various functions that we have found useful across our projects at Bloom.

Includes things like:

• a common CLJ and CLJS interface for uuid (eventually landed in CLJ)
• a textify function to convert hiccup to plain text (for emails)
• a render function that lets you render reagent components on the backend (the hiccup lib alone is not sufficient)
• a textarea input component that resizes based on the content
• a reagent component that sets an emoji as the favicon for the website
• a ring middleware that caches responses to disk
• ...etc

We use it to "incubate" libraries, before spinning them out on their own (which is what happened to TADA)

We are currently incubating:

• pages - a way to register "pages" for the front-end and back-end
• config - a simple way to read and validate a config from a file and ENV
• file-db - a "db" that just stores EDN files to folders on a disk
• an implementation of uuid-v7
• tada.rpc - a way to turn TADA routes into a RPC system
• fontawesome icons - all the free fontawesome icons as svgs

Today (2026-01-30) we open-sourced Commons, because there are several web apps we open-sourced that make use of it (and it's awkward for an open-sourced project to have a critical component be an opaque blob).