[Haskell-cafe] Hosting a static site with Yesod

[Christopher Reichert]

On Sat, Nov 29 2014, Yifan Yu <yvifan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm experimenting with Yesod and I've created a simple scaffolding site
> with yesod. I've downloaded a bootstrap template site and wish to simply
> host this site with yesod. The template site has an index.html and a bunch
> of css and js files. This seemly simple task has baffled me. By my
> understanding, the site should be placed under the 'static' directory, I
> tried to use sendFile to send the index.html file in getHomeR, but only the
> content of the that file is displayed, without the css and js. Should I do
> this with a Subsite?
>

You might want to try the question on the Yesod mailing lists if you
don't find your answer here.

A simple solution would be to just port the index.html to hamlet and put
that directly in the ./templates/homepage.hamlet file. The
homepage.hamlet file is complimented by a homepage.julius and
homepage.lucius file which takes a flavor of javascript and css,
respectively. In Yesod, the combination of these files is known as a
widget.

You can move your javascript and css into those widget files directly or
you can put them in your static dir (but your html is served from
homepage.hamlet by default in the scaffold).

The static directory is already a subsite for static resources (see the
config/routes file).

Also see the section "widgetFile" in this Yesod Book chapter:
http://www.yesodweb.com/book/scaffolding-and-the-site-template

If you want to serve the static files as a separate subsite you might
find the following links helpful:

https://github.com/yesodweb/yesod/wiki/Static-file-subsite-Hello-World
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/yesodweb/Cz8hvgiu0d0/l90NGvhAyLEJThis

Hope that helps,

-- 
Christopher Reichert
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