[Haskell-cafe] Hosting a static site with Yesod

[Yifan Yu]

Thank you everyone and sorry for the late reply. The problem is solved and
I think I'm gonna read more on the Yesod book and web programming in
general. The reason that I'm using Yesod for this is that I want to start
with something static, say a template site, make it work first so I can
have something to start with, and then gradually add the RESTful contents.

On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Tobias Dammers <tdammers at gmail.com> wrote:

> Out of interest; why would you use Yesod for this? It's a great platform
> for sure, but way overkill for serving a bunch of static files IMO - all
> you need, really, would be a simple single-file Scotty app, I'd think.
>
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 04:04:47PM +0000, Michael Snoyman wrote:
> > I just wrote an answer to this on StackOverflow:
> >
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27200701/hosting-a-static-site-with-yesod/27204171#27204171
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 29, 2014, 5:43 PM Christopher Reichert <
> creichert07 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > 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
> > > irc: creichert
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