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Re:Ask HN: What are the best web tools to build basic web ap... by aban on Sunday October 23, 2016 @04:42PM (#12775332)
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.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best web tools to build basic web ap... by mark_l_watson on Sunday October 23, 2016 @04:47PM (#12775345)
Servant looks great. I have only spent a few hours playing with it, but from what I have seen, I like it.
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Re:Ask HN: What are the best web tools to build basic web ap... by thelambentonion on Sunday October 23, 2016 @06:23PM (#12775711)
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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