Friend: an extensible authentication and authorization library for Clojure Ring webapps and services

Say hello to my little Friend.

There’s plenty of technical stuff in the README to chew on if you like. In short, I’m hoping this can eventually be a warden/spring-security/everyauth /omniauth for Clojure; that is, a common abstraction for authentication and authorization mechanisms. Clojure has been around long enough that adding pedestrian things like form and HTTP Basic and $AUTH_METHOD_HERE to a Ring application should be easy. Right now, it’s not: either you’re pasting together a bunch of...