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    <h1>Gizmo</h1>
    <p class="lead">Gizmo is a Clojure library that provides a low-effort way to develop Web applications and RESTful services.</p>

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        <a href='https://github.com/ifesdjeen/gizmo-cloc'>Example application »</a>
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        <a href='https://clojars.org/clojurewerkz/gizmo'>Current Version: 1.0.0-alpha2</a>
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      <h2>Best of Clojure</h2>
      <p>Under the hood, Gizmo relies on the libraries that have been running in production by many people from Clojure community: Ring, Compojure, Enlive, route_one and others.</p>
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      <h2>Good Thoughput, Low Latency</h2>
      <p>With parallel widget rendering, independent parts of the page will be prepared in parallel without any effort from your side.</p>
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      <h2>Batteries included</h2>
      <p>Gizmo provides you with a great toolchain to jumpstart application development, providing a ways to simplify routing, templating, serialization, built-in services and more.</p>
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      <h2>Compile-time Template Error Detection</h2>
      <p>Gizmo has compile-time detection of issues in markup templates.</p>
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      <h2>Conventions-Oriented</h2>
      <p>Gizmo provides you with a set of simple conventions that help you to keep application concerns separated, making it extremely easy to find parts you need to work on.</p>
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      <h2>Small Components Working Together</h2>
      <p>Split long-running parts of your application into lightweight cooperative tasks, controllable via minimalistic API.</p>
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