Book Image

Haskell Cookbook

Book Image

Haskell Cookbook

Overview of this book

Haskell is a purely functional language that has the great ability to develop large and difficult, but easily maintainable software. Haskell Cookbook provides recipes that start by illustrating the principles of functional programming in Haskell, and then gradually build up your expertise in creating industrial-strength programs to accomplish any goal. The book covers topics such as Functors, Applicatives, Monads, and Transformers. You will learn various ways to handle state in your application and explore advanced topics such as Generalized Algebraic Data Types, higher kind types, existential types, and type families. The book will discuss the association of lenses with type classes such as Functor, Foldable, and Traversable to help you manage deep data structures. With the help of the wide selection of examples in this book, you will be able to upgrade your Haskell programming skills and develop scalable software idiomatically.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Using blaze to reverse engineer an HTML page

In this recipe, we will use a package blaze-from-html to reverse engineer an existing HTML page, to create Haskell code that uses blaze-html.

How to do it...

  1. Install blaze-from-html using stack. Here we use the resolver lts-9.1. Feel free to use the latest or your favorite resolver:
        stack --resolver lts-9.1 install blaze-from-html
  1. Check the location of the tool using stack:
        stack path --local-bin
  1. Use curl to download the home page from haskell.org (http://www.haskell.org/):
       curl -X GET http://www.haskell.org -o index.html
  1. Use blaze-from-html to engineer the blaze DSL from the HTML page:
        blaze-from-html -v html5 -s index.html > index.hs
...