[Haskell-cafe] Starting Haskell with a web application

[Bjorn Bringert]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:
> bos:
>
> > Jonathan Gardner wrote:
>  >
>  > > Where do I get started in writing a web app with Haskell? I am looking
>  > > more for a framework like Pylons and less like Apache, if that helps.
>  >
>  > The closest we currently have to a web framework is Happs
>  > (http://happs.org/), but it uses the kitchen sink of advanced and
>  > unusual language extensions, which I think might be why it hasn't got
>  > all that much momentum.
>  >
>  > There's also WASH, but that has an even lower profile.  I couldn't tell
>  > you if it sees much use, or even builds with recent compilers.
>
>  Perhaps it is time for a haskell web apps wiki page, if there isn't one,
>  outlining the approaches, with a structure like:
>
>     * HAppS
>     * CGI
>         - FastCGI
>
>     * Database solutions
>         - HDBC
>         - Takusen
>
>     * Templating
>         - HStringTemplate
>
>     * JSON rpc
>
>  etc.

There's this:

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Practical_web_programming_in_Haskell

It doesn't mention many of the above, but they would be nice
additions. The page should probably be split into several though.

/Bjorn