Building a Haskell web app with Snap: Snap quickstart guide
I'm a Haskell newbie, and it's fun. I thought I'd document my adventures. Starting with my attempt to build a web app. I could have spent months picking a web framework. There are decent comparisons on the web. I picked Snap, because of the name (and perhaps some advice from a geeky friend of mine). I've written web frameworks (in Python) and the intro to Snap caught my eye. All pretty arbitrary reasons, so let's get started. First there is a quickstart guide . Great, who doesn't love quickstart guides? It tells me how to install the framework , though that redirects me to another page, but I don't mind. I would have to have Cabal installed, otherwise it wouldn't work. Instead of just plain: cabal install snap I do: cabal install --user --prefix=$HOME snap Which seems the most convenient way to put things in my ~ tree rather than anywhere on the system. Great it works first time with no dependency issues, conflicts, or compile errors. That