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Haskell Cookbook

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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 heist as a template engine

In this recipe, we will work with heist, a templating framework that can work with HTML or XML documents. The heist framework is also a default templating framework used for the Snap web development framework. At the same time, heist does not have any dependency on Snap and can be used independently.

In this recipe, we will create a template and bind a value to the template.

How to do it...

  1. Create a new project, working-with-heist, with a simple stack template.
        stack new working-with-heist simple
  1. Add a dependency on the heist library in the build-depends sub-section of the executable section:
 executable working-with-heist
   hs-source-dirs:      src
   main-is:             Main...