[web-devel] Kick-off discussion: Yesod 0.9

[Greg Weber]

On devel mode- I have contacted the maintainer of the Shaker package in
hopes of getting it to build with ghc7 so that using Shaker can be better
investigated- it seems to already take the approach that we want, so it may
have already solved some of our problems. I have also requested a cabal-dev
library api (instead of just a command line interaction), which would make
it easier to use cabal-dev in development mode.

As for storing rendered web pages- if you are displaying a link to them it
seems that you need a database entry. This kind of entry doesn't seem like
it makes sense in an hledger journal unless there is a section for
configuration. I don't know if you already have config files- seems like it
could be there. Otherwise a sqlite database could be used. Normally database
entries point to external files rather than embed the file directly for
performance reasons that may not concern you. An approach for external files
could be a directory structure within a config directory. I think the
community is in need of some re-usable file attachment code that makes it
easy to save a file and switch between the local file system or Amazon S3,
etc.

Greg weber

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Simon Michael <simon at joyful.com> wrote:

> On 5/30/11 4:54 PM, Simon Michael wrote:
>
>> I sent some experience notes on these earlier today, but it doesn't seem
>> to want to show up on this list and I got no
>> bounce. Let's see if this one gets through ?
>>
>
> Ha! Quickly, now:
>
>
>
> (Fourth attempt to cc web-devel .. moderator, please reject the previous if
> they show up in your queue)
>
> Hi all,
>
> if you watch the hledger repo or #ledger irc channel, you'll have noticed
> that hledger-web was upgraded from yesod 0.6 to 0.8. Also I adopted the
> organization of yesod's scaffold template app, then simplified that in a way
> that I like, and finally moved all the inline hamlet templates to files (in
> hledger-web/.hledger/web/templates). I updated the hamlet syntax by hand; if
> I did it over, I would try harder to move to files first and then use the
> conversion tool provided by hamlet. For interest, all this took about 20
> hours.
>
> Learning yesod, it sometimes feels over-intricate and obstructive (like
> when learning haskell..) However all the problems I've hit so far had
> solutions, everything has its place and once you fit the pieces together it
> all works really well. And all the necessary pieces exist. And many of them
> have great documentation. BIG thanks to Michael and the yesod team!
>
> I'm still learning how best to do things but developing the web app has
> become quite pleasant - I invite you to join in and build some really useful
> financial uis. Here are some notes on running the app:
>
> - The default build, aka yesod's "debug mode", reacts immediately to
> changes in static files and lucius/cassius/julius templates, but not hamlet
> templates. To see hamlet changes you need to also touch the affected hs
> files (or all of them) and rebuild. Or, use "yesod build" which touches the
> hs files for you (but doesn't work for me on mac yet.)
>
> - "yesod devel" runs the app in "devel mode", which should quickly rebuild
> and restart when any template or code file changes. I haven't got this to
> work yet ("Testing files.." repeatedly, nothing running) but this will be
> the way to go.
>
> - The wai-handler-devel package provides an alternate (deprecated ?) devel
> mode, which reacts to code changes (but not hamlet changes, so touch the hs
> files for those). I heard it's slower than yesod-devel but it's quicker than
> a normal rebuild/restart. I've got it working with some hardcoded values,
> let me know if you need that code.
>
> - The "production mode" build (cabal configure -fproduction) has all
> templates embedded. It still needs to serve the static files from disk
> though, so my write-out-files-on-startup hack is still needed (see
> EmbeddedFiles.hs). We'll probably figure out how to embed the static files
> too, and then production mode won't need anything from disk.
>
> Next steps: now it's easier to move the web ui forward, and I've been
> forming some plans
> (see http://twitter.com/#!/simonkwmichael/status/74966725057191936). FYI
> http://demo.hledger.org will keep running the latest release, for new
> visitors, and there's now http://demo.hledger.org:5001 which runs directly
> out of the trunk repo; this will be the place to preview and experiment.
>
> Finally, a random brainstorming question: I'd like to be able to push a
> button to save the current filtered view as a named favourite, and link
> these in the navigation area for quick access. What's the best scope for
> these "canned reports" - current (top-level) journal file, current
> directory, current user, ... ? And related but orthogonal: where to store
> them - embedded in the journal, saved in a separate db (using yesod's
> persistent), attached to the authenticated user's settings, ... ?
>
> Best,
>
> -Simon
>
>
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