On 8 October 2010 23:51, John Lenz wrote:

The past few days I have been investigating the various options for web programming in Haskell and when I first started looking it was pretty confusing.  The existing wiki pages weren't really organised to help a newcomer see the various options and which libraries are supposed to work together, since the existing wiki pages basically just list of all the libraries and frameworks.

So I edited the Web page on the wiki to list the various options, each of which contain pointers to the various libraries which are meant to work together.

I would appreciate help completing the page (any options I didn't list?) since I have only been looking at the various options for a couple of days now.

Nice work! Actually last week I re-organised the web part of the wiki into the sections now. Before that it was two big pages listing libraries and frameworks with one-liner explanations. We've been discussing it on Haskell-Cafe but maybe we should've CC'd it to web-dev, too. Took a while to sort it out into sections. After that this is pretty much what we were after anyway, to provide some context and tutorials to guide newbies. Thanks for putting the time into doing this as I wasn't educated on the various Happstack/Yesod/Snap options re working with other libraries. This is definitely essential info. Ideally I'd like the options on the Web page to just be a list with links to the pages, because then you can write a tutorial, provide example snippets, etc of doing it that way. For now this works but pages listing things like this on the Wiki do tend to mudslide into something huge and unmaintained. We can prune it whence that starts. I take the library approach rather than framework approach so right now I'm using nginx + FastCGI + w/e I need. I'll document this way some time today.