A Datomic entity browser for prod

This app is an easy way to get a generic web-based support/diagnostics UI for any production Datomic service, with the ability to extend using Clojure to add custom queries, routes, and views.

Figure: Datomic browser targetting an entity in the mbrainz-full dataset, a music catalogue. Here we inspect the entity for :artist/name "The Beatles" and filter for that artist's releases titled "Yellow Submarine".

10min lightning talk – Conj 2025 (start here!)

• youtube, transcript with screenshots
• Get a demo: DM @dustingetz on Clojurians slack, or email dustin@hyperfiddle.net.
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Features

Standalone Datomic Browser mode (connect by Datomic URI)

• Out of the box, a general Datomic entity browser
• schema views, db-stats, history views, searchable EAVT index, entity navigation, reverse refs, etc
• large database support, fluent virtual scroll over 50k+ records
• "It has everything you would want"

Integrated Service Browser mode (service intermediated query)

• securely embed in your service as a Clojure lib -- no direct Datomic URI connection
• invoke and navigate your actual service query endpoints (Clojure fns)
• integrate your secure production ring middlewares for auth, etc
• custom entrypoint and dependency injection – integrate your standard service dependencies to invoke the service endpoints you already have
• first class support for PII protection
• built-in query supervision feature to safeguard against slow queries

By the way, it's only like 300 LOC: datomic_browser2.cljc. Fork it! Program it!

Getting started

Prerequisites

• java -version modern version, we use openjdk version "23.0.2"
• Clojure CLI https://clojure.org/guides/install_clojure

git clone git@github.com:hyperfiddle/datomic-browser.git
cd datomic-browser
./datomic_fixtures_mbrainz_small.sh       # Download Datomic w/ mbrainz dataset
#./datomic_fixtures_mbrainz_full.sh       # optional
./run_datomic.sh
clj -X:dev dev/-main
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# INFO  dev: 👉 http://0.0.0.0:8080

# boot with Datomic transactor URI
clj -X:dev dev/-main :datomic-uri '"'datomic:dev://localhost:4334/*'"'

Repl: jack-in with :dev alias, then eval (dev/-main)

License

• free for individual use on local dev machines, free use requires login to activate (we are a business)
• deploying in prod at work requires a license, contact us.
• still working out the details