Thanks for sharing your code and experience. Very interesting and a
good example of how to put the libraries together to build a real app.
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Chris Forno
I decided to find out for myself. You can find the results at http://jekor.com/article/is-haskell-a-good-choice-for-web-applications
Included is the source code for the web application powering http://www.vocabulink.com/
The source is roughly 2,000 lines of Haskell, along with some SQL and JavaScript. It's written in literate style and includes a 75-page PDF. It demonstrates and explains how to:
* use FastCGI to communicate with a web server (nginx in this case) * move data to and from a PostgreSQL database (HDBC) * authenticate users with cookies * interact with users via asynchronous JavaScript and JSON (AJAJ) * collect data with HTML forms (formlets) * communicate with users via email * cache with memcached * implement a custom forums system (with threaded comments)
I make no claims that the code is elegant or idiomatic. It is however real code that's running "in the wild". And I hope it's useful to anyone else considering doing web development in Haskell.
I welcome and encourage your feedback!
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