Web technologies

The libraries in this subsection are as follows:

  • Yesod framework: Full-blown MVC web framework, with all the bells and whistles.
  • Snap / Happstack: Also web frameworks, independent from each other. Comprises fewer features than Yesod, but still very useful.
  • blaze-html: Blazingly fast combinator library for HTML templating. Uses ByteStrings and the builder pattern.
  • amazonka / AWS: Bindings to the Amazon Web Service API. The amazonka bindings are autogenerated, full bindings, while aws is more user-friendly but partial.

Developing full-blown web applications in Haskell is easy, and there are multiple great libraries with overlapping features. In short, there are three major big frameworks: Yesod, Snap, and Happstack. Each of these provides ...

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