On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Neil Mitchell
Hi,
My website at http://community.haskell.org/~ndm/ is based on lots of template files, for example: http://community.haskell.org/~ndm/darcs/website/pages/catch.html (not a real HTML file, but a partial HTML file).
These files all start with some metadata, and then have some templated language below, which gets combined with headers/footers to produce my website. I did this all using custom code, but I'd like to move to using Hamlet with YAML, so I can throw away lots of my custom code and so I get lots of additional features I'm currently missing because I have to hand-roll the framework myself. I couldn't find any examples of anything else doing this, so two questions:
1) I couldn't find any easy way to say "run hamlet on each of the files in this directory"? Will I have to do a getDirectoryContents in IO, lift that into Q, and then statically call hamletFile on a list? Then I'll output the HTML to file.
Yes, that sounds like the most likely-to-succeed approach.
2) Is there an existing example of this? Writing a static site in terms of Hamlet seems like a nice idea, and I can't be the first to have thought of it.
Thanks, Neil
You may have been the first to discuss static Hamlet, but there have been some emails off-list about creating static Yesod sites, which would overlap quite a bit. I think creating such a system would be fairly easy actually: just spider a live site and download all the necessary files. With Warp/http-enumerator (or even just going straight against WAI), it should be possible to write that very trivially. In fact, I don't think it would even be Yesod-specific, so if you set up your Hamlet code as a WAI app, I would imagine it would work with such a system as well. But I'll also agree with Jasper that Hakyll is very nice. I know it has (or at least had) some level of Hamlet support, though I'm not sure what that's like today. Michael