hoogle VS ihp

For what it's worth, I've never used/heard of this function myself, but I used the awesome https://hoogle.haskell.org site and searched by the type signature:

Looks cool.

Maybe it can also search by signature like https://hoogle.haskell.org/ - would be a killer feature for me, but niche :)

As for finding things in those many modules, I usually check hoogle first: https://hoogle.haskell.org/

If the type doesn't make it clear, then I read the docs or source on hackage. To find the right hackage package, I generally use hoogle which can be queried by name or by type!

Cool project and overall I'd say your good is good. There's some stylistic things I might change. Below I've commented on a bunch of random stuff just to give you food for thought and possible leads to look into as a continuing to learn haskell sort of thing. I was pretty bad about citing where functions are from, so I recommend using something like hoogle (https://hoogle.haskell.org/) if it's not clear what function I meant.

Fun fact: Hoogle is actually a thing: https://hoogle.haskell.org

You can search for a type signature on Hoogle. For example, if I wanted to know if there's a function from lists to Maybe I could search for [a] -> Maybe [a]

Haskell has a search engine, called hoogle, for looking up types and functions. It's invaluable for getting familliar with the language. https://hoogle.haskell.org

hoogle

Yep exactly, you can find it mostly here https://github.com/digitallyinduced/ihp/tree/master/IHP/IDE/SchemaDesigner But no Haskell is needed for using Thin itself

Haskell is famous for it's quite an academic nature. But the ecosystem has drastically improved in recent years, so that that image is really outdated by now.

E.g. with Haskell Language Server we have nice autocompletion. Recently dot-notation has been added, so you can now write `someValue.someField` as in other languages. And the documentation is improving as well.

If you're doing web development, a good starting point is IHP (https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/). IHP is Haskell's version of Laravel/Rails/Django. It's really a superpower to have Haskell's type system combined with the rapid development approach of Rails :) (Disclaimer: I'm founder of the company that makes IHP)

If this post got you interested in learning more about Haskell and you want to see type classes in some real code, a great starting point for Haskell is IHP :)

IHP is a new Haskell framework with a focus on actual building applications. Imagine the productiveness of rails combined with the typesafety of Haskell.

It's now already the biggest Haskell web framework, we just hit 3200 GitHub stars. I belive Haskell can reach a lot more than it's currently doing if we get things easy to use.

If you want to build a web app with Haskell and play with type classes check it out: https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/ GitHub: https://github.com/digitallyinduced/ihp

Do you think making it more open source would solve the issue?

Thin is mostly based on IHP DataSync. You can the source code here https://github.com/digitallyinduced/ihp/blob/master/IHP/Data... Thin itself is just a "thin" wrapper around IHP and IHP DataSync.

Hey there, Founder of digitally induced here. Happy to share what've been working on with Thin Backend over the last months.

Thin is a version of the [IHP Framework](https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/), designed to be used by frontend developers. Instead of building APIs with low-level `fetch` calls, we provide high-level APIs like `createRecord('tasks', { title: 'Hello World' }`, `updateRecord(..)` and `deleteRecord(..)` to update your database.

To simplify state management (which is typically hard and lot's of boilerplate), we provide realtime APIs so that all app state is always in sync with the actual database. Previously your react app might have been rendered from the redux state, now it's rendered directly from the server state.

The Schema Designer and the migration tools make it really easy to get going with a project.

Happy to hear everyone's feedback! :)

u/Evidencebasedonly (did i get that right) you are a Haskell dev no? I saw this framework recently, it looks cool, has code generators and a integrated JSX style DSL and all

IHP

As far as what makes it into production, those choices are usually more conservative. I can, for example, imagine a backend in say IHP haskell, and a front end in wasm-compiled yew rust, buuuuut more often than not, it's something like the LAMP stack, or like ASP.NET top to bottom. Nothing here will produce code that makes senior engineers cry of its beauty, but it will be code that any company can fill roles to work on, and is at least reasonably intelligible if you already know a C-based language. Things that would not be true in my extremely contrived example.