[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Web Framework

[Donnie Jones]

Hello Michael,

I am interested in contributing to a Haskell web framework.  :)

I have started an attempt to create my own Haskell web framework, but I got
busy working on my Master's thesis research, so I had to stop working on
it...  I was a web developer at a start-up company for 1.5yrs with Ruby on
Rails, and I really really like the MVC design; however, I prefer a stricter
MVC implementation than Rails provides.  More specifically, I don't think
code should appear in the view at all.  I believe that using html tags, the
web framework can provide a function to "render" the view which would parse
the html tags and insert the content (whatever it may be).  Functions can be
easily composed together to build more complex content in the views.  For
example,

<person id="name"></person>
<person id="age"></person>

person_name =
  renderView "person" "name" "John Doe"

person_age =
  renderView "person" "age" "40"

I can show you my code which implements this parsing in a more structured
manner, but I think this stricter MVC implementation leads to more
maintenable projects and especially facilitates a graphic designer to work
independent of the web developer since the graphic designer won't be
confused by the code in the views.

What do you think?
--
Donnie Jones

2009/1/25 Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com>

> I'm interested on starting a project with others to create a powerful
> Haskell web framework in the same league as Rails or Django. I've enumerated
> (perhaps ad nauseum) my ideas for it in this blog post:
> http://blog.snoyman.com/2009/01/25/haskell-web-framework/. If people are
> interested in this, please respond to me either directly or on this mailing
> list.
>
> Just as a quick summary of the post, I would say the most salient points
> are that the framework should work in a shared hosting environment and
> should automatically abstract away most of the issues of writing an Ajax web
> application. It should also leverage the strengths of Haskell, eg type
> safety and speed.
>
> I welcome all comments and critiques as well.
>
> Michael
>
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