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Thanks for the recommendations. I need to study both Elm (never used it) and PureScript (have just played with it). I am almost ready to publish my first Haskell book (my take on getting started the easy way, with a tutorial for a subset of the language and some cookbook style coding recipes to play with). I am thinking of doing a volume II cookbook that covers web development, and other topics. I use scotty and yesod, and experimenting with Elm and PureScript sounds good.



Looking forward to your book! A volume II sounds like a good idea too.

So far I've only used Yesod myself, but Spock looks very promising and I've heard great things about Servant for writing APIs.


Servant looks great. I have only spent a few hours playing with it, but from what I have seen, I like it.


Servant is still _very_ rough around the edges, imo. I like it a lot for mocking APIs [0], but I'd be wary about using it in production for anything other than a small service.

Right now I'm keeping an eye on servant-auth [1] and the GHCJS implementation of servant-client [2], as they're both extremely compelling.

[0] Recently, I needed to test something against a work-in-progress API. I wrote out a rough type-level specification and had servant-quickcheck generate arbitrary data. When I needed to test more concrete data, it was trivial to incrementally move endpoints over to concretely defined stubs.

[1] https://github.com/plow-technologies/servant-auth

[2] https://github.com/LumiGuide/servant/tree/client-ghcjs




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