hackage-server VS obelisk

Compare hackage-server vs obelisk and see what are their differences.

obelisk

Functional reactive web and mobile applications, with batteries included. (by obsidiansystems)
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hackage-server obelisk
19 26
407 924
0.5% 1.6%
8.3 7.4
6 days ago 8 days ago
Haskell Haskell
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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hackage-server

Posts with mentions or reviews of hackage-server. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-17.
  • Show HN: Name Checker – check your project name accross many sites
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Sep 2023
    Very cool! Is this open-source? It would be cool to add a few sources to this (like https://hackage.haskell.org).
  • `cabal update` stuck here forever.
    1 project | /r/haskell | 22 May 2023
    Selected mirror http://hackage.haskell.org/
  • Haskell ecosystem questions.
    5 projects | /r/haskell | 17 Mar 2023
    3. https://hackage.haskell.org is the primary place
  • Why are haskell applications so obscure?
    7 projects | /r/haskell | 10 Jan 2023
    I used to see pandoc described as a "virus that makes people want to install Haskell", but I think someone must've figured out binary distribution.
  • Comparing ZIO to Haskell effects libraries like Polysemy?
    3 projects | /r/scala | 25 Aug 2022
    The closest analogue to ZIO is probably the RIO monad + Has* type classes from https://hackage.haskell.org . /package/rio . (But ZIO is a bit richer with the typed error channel.)
  • Just released: cabal 3.8.1.0
    4 projects | /r/haskell | 11 Aug 2022
    Not yet, first hackage-server has to be updated to Cabal-3.8.1.0, see this hackage-server ticket
  • What's the story with organizing a cental python docs hub?
    3 projects | /r/Python | 5 Aug 2022
    So I was working on this tool pysearch.com for doing deep semantic searches of python docs by program analysis inferred functionality when I noticed that every library's docs seem to be in a different format hosted in a different source. This would be fine if there was also a standard format hub for all the libraries on pypi or something, but it looks like even readthedocs doesn't contain everything. I find this a bit odd given the existence of tools like pydoc for doing something like this locally. Originally, I was hoping to find something like hackage for haskell, as I was hoping to build a natural language version of hoogle. In the meantime I've gotten pysearch to work by setting up custom rules for each doc, but this is kinda unsustainable.
  • Cabal package download 403 error
    3 projects | /r/haskell | 31 May 2022
    $ cabal get network-into -v3 ... /usr/bin/curl 'http://hackage.haskell.org/package/network-info-0.2.1.tar.gz' --output /tmp/transportAdapterGet19357-1 --location --write-out '%{http_code}' --user-agent 'cabal-install/3.6.2.0 (linux; x86_64)' --silent --show-error --dump-header /tmp/curl-headers19357-2.txt Exception Unexpected response 503 for http://hackage.haskell.org/package/network-info-0.2.1.tar.gz when using mirror http://hackage.haskell.org/ Selected mirror http://hackage.fpcomplete.com/Downloading package network-info-0.2.1/usr/bin/curl 'http://hackage.fpcomplete.com/package/network-info-0.2.1.tar.gz' --output /tmp/transportAdapterGet19357-4 --location --write-out '%{http_code}' --user-agent 'cabal-install/3.6.2.0 (linux; x86_64)' --silent --show-error --dump-header /tmp/curl-headers19357-5.txt Exception Unexpected response 503 for http://hackage.fpcomplete.com/package/network-info-0.2.1.tar.gz when using mirror http://hackage.fpcomplete.com/ Selected mirror http://objects-us-east-1.dream.io/hackage-mirror/ Downloading package network-info-0.2.1/usr/bin/curl 'http://objects-us-east-1.dream.io/hackage-mirror/package/network-info-0.2.1.tar.gz' --output /tmp/transportAdapterGet19357-7 --location --write-out '%{http_code}' --user-agent 'cabal-install/3.6.2.0 (linux; x86_64)' --silent --show-error --dump-header /tmp/curl-headers19357-8.txt Unexpected response 403 for http://objects-us-east-1.dream.io/hackage-mirror/package/network-info-0.2.1.tar.gz
  • Monthly Hask Anything (March 2022)
    5 projects | /r/haskell | 2 Mar 2022
    See https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server/issues/997.
  • Haskell compiled onto LLVM increase performance?
    4 projects | /r/haskell | 2 Nov 2021
    The other source of haskell documentation is hackage, which features both libraries and higher-level GHC modules. Using hoogle (!hoogle or !hgl in DDG), you can search these docs by module name, function name, or even type signature.

obelisk

Posts with mentions or reviews of obelisk. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-10.
  • Help initializing obelisk project
    1 project | /r/reflexfrp | 1 May 2023
    Hello I remember successfully setting up obelisk a while ago and have gone through the instructions https://github.com/obsidiansystems/obelisk and ensured that everything is installed correctly, when I run the install command fro obelisk it says that it's installed but when I run ob init I get an error of command not found, this is an arch machine not nixOS. Any help would me much appreciated.
  • Web ui framework
    1 project | /r/haskell | 9 Mar 2023
    If you want to use reflex, the obelisk framework is pretty user friendly. You do have to install nix on your machine, but the ob command handles all the nix interactions for you so you /hopefully/ don't need to know much.
  • obelisk/README.md at master · obsidiansystems/obelisk · GitHub
    1 project | /r/cryptogeum | 23 Jan 2023
  • Why are haskell applications so obscure?
    7 projects | /r/haskell | 10 Jan 2023
    You can make all those things in haskell, and I do professionally. Frontends (entirely in haskell), native IOS and Android applications, Servers, and Games. In fact the framework Obelisk does most of these all out of the box.
  • Any advice on making a mobile app using Haskell?
    2 projects | /r/haskell | 16 Dec 2022
  • Building a Haskell CRUD stack with Obelisk for PowerZonePack
    3 projects | /r/haskell | 15 Dec 2022
    Thanks for the comment! We can honestly say that Obelisk is far from perfect, but we're continuously improving the project in our daily basics. And that's why we encourage you to start your adventure with the lib anew. If you still miss a guide to routing with Obelisk, please read this doc. Our team would be happy to answer your further question regarding Obelisk; feel free to email us anytime!
  • GitHub - NorfairKing/haskell-dependency-graph-nix
    2 projects | /r/haskell | 7 Dec 2022
    I also had a use case where I needed to extract the nix derivation dependencies of haskell packages: https://github.com/obsidiansystems/obelisk/pull/933
  • Web development in Haskell
    7 projects | /r/haskell | 9 Aug 2022
    There's also GHCJS, with https://github.com/obsidiansystems/obelisk being (probably) the best choice, but personally I found it extremely tedious to set up a dev environment (not a nix guy) and there's also the learning curve of FRP.
  • The Big List of Haskell GUI Libraries
    8 projects | /r/haskell | 6 Jul 2022
    https://github.com/obsidiansystems/obelisk, https://shpadoinkle.org/
  • Monthly Hask Anything (July 2022)
    6 projects | /r/haskell | 1 Jul 2022
    I can't speak to the nicest way, as I haven't actually developed any Android apps with Haskell, but I've been meaning to give Obelisk a try.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing hackage-server and obelisk you can also consider the following projects:

hackage-repo-tool - Hackage security framework based on TUF (The Update Framework)

reflex-platform - A curated package set and set of tools that let you build Haskell packages so they can run on a variety of platforms. reflex-platform is built on top of the nix package manager.

hoogle - Haskell API search engine

vscode-ghc-simple - Simple GHC (Haskell) integration for VSCode

hackage-whatsnew - Diff a local cabal working directory against its latest counterpart on hackage and report any differences

reflex - Interactive programs without callbacks or side-effects. Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) uses composable events and time-varying values to describe interactive systems as pure functions. Just like other pure functional code, functional reactive code is easier to get right on the first try, maintain, and reuse.

plutus-pioneer-program - This repository hosts the lectures of the Plutus Pioneers Program. This program is a training course that the IOG Education Team provides to recruit and train software developers in Plutus, the native smart contract language for the Cardano ecosystem.

reflex-native - Framework for writing fully native apps using Reflex, a Functional Reactive Programming library for Haskell.

cblrepo - Tool to simplify managing a consistent set of Haskell packages for distributions.

miso - :ramen: A tasty Haskell front-end framework

Cabal - Official upstream development repository for Cabal and cabal-install

nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager