Haskell Web Starter

A simple template for getting started on Haskell web development. This provides a bare-bones reading tracking app to show how you can serve web pages and REST APIs in Haskell.

This can be used to get started with JSON API webservices, client-facing HTML web apps, or both.

Features

• http routing with scotty
• HTML5 rendering/templates with blaze-html
• Static file serving
• JSON REST API using aeson
• CORS enabled
• Postgres database connection using postgresql-simple
• App building and serving with Cabal
• VSCode integration/intellisense with the Haskell Extension

demo.mp4

Requires

• Cabal
• Postgres instance

Running

Edit the Postgres connection info in app/Main.hs

localPG :: ConnectInfo
localPG =
  defaultConnectInfo
    { connectDatabase = "postgres",
      connectHost = "localhost",
      connectPassword = "1234"
    }

Then run the app using cabal

$ cabal run