Want to build something? Build a Web App walks through a complete guestbook end to end. Bridges from the languages you already know, plus ready-to-use recipes. Coming from PHP? Start with the Rosetta Stone. Coming from Clojure? Start with Coming from Clojure. Want working code for common tasks? Open the Cookbook.
Build a Web App
An end-to-end tutorial: build a complete guestbook web app in Phel with routing, HTML rendering, and request handling. Every snippet runs.
Coming from Clojure
What transfers from Clojure to Phel, what differs, and what Phel adds, with a side-by-side form mapping
Rosetta Stone: PHP → Phel
Side-by-side PHP and Phel for the same task: variables, functions, collections, strings, control flow, loops, and interop
Cookbook
Runnable Phel recipes for files, JSON, HTTP, dates, error handling, schemas, state, and data-transformation pipelines
Schema Validation
Validate, coerce, and generate data with phel.schema, using plain Phel data as declarative schemas
Data Formats
Exchange data with other Clojure-aligned runtimes using the eval-free EDN and Transit interchange modules.
AI Module
Provider-agnostic LLM client for Phel: chat, structured extraction, tool use, embeddings, and semantic search across Anthropic, OpenAI, and Voyage AI.