Ring vs Compojure vs Reitit in 2026: Which Clojure Web Stack Should You Actually Use?

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Clojure is having a quiet renaissance in 2026. Teams building data-heavy backends, trading systems, and long-lived services keep discovering what the community has known for a decade: the REPL-driven workflow is still the fastest way to build software. But when you ask “which web framework should I use?”, you get three different answers that are actually the same answer at different levels: Ring (3,884 GitHub stars), Compojure (4,112 stars), and Reitit (1,581 stars). The confusion is understandable — they are not competitors in the way Rails and Django are. Ring is the HTTP foundation, and Compojure and Reitit are two routing layers that sit on top of it. Here is how they fit together, and which combination you should ship in 2026.

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Ring vs Compojure vs Reitit in 2026: Which Clojure Web Stack Should You Actually Use?