An advanced web framework using the Haskell programming language. Featuring:

• safety & security guaranteed at compile time
• developer productivity: tools for all your basic web development needs
• raw performance
  • fast, compiled code
  • techniques for constant-space memory consumption
• asynchronous IO
  • this is built in to the Haskell programming language (like Erlang)
  • handles a greater concurrent load than any other web application server

Learn more: http://yesodweb.com/

Installation: http://www.yesodweb.com/page/five-minutes

cabal update && cabal install yesod

Create a new project after installing

yesod init

Using cabal-dev

cabal-dev creates a sandboxed environment for an individual cabal package. Your application is a cabal package and you should use cabal-dev with your Yesod application. Instead of using the cabal command, use the cabal-dev command.

Use yesod-devel --dev when developing your application.

Installing the latest development version from github

Yesod is broken up into 4 separate code repositories each built upon many smaller packages.

Install conflicts are unfortunately common in Haskell development. However, we can prevent most of them by using some extra tools. This will require a little up-front reading and learning, but save you from a lot of misery in the long-run. See the above explanation of cabal-dev, and below of virthualenv.

Please note that cabal-dev will not work in a virthualenv shell - you can't use both at the same time.

virthualenv

virthualenv will not work on Windows - Windows users should use only cabal-dev.

To just install Yesod from github, we only need cabal-dev. However, cabal-dev may be more hassle than it is worth when hacking on Yesod.

We recommend using virthualenv when hacking on Yesod. This is optional, but prevents your custom build of Yesod from interfering with your currently installed cabal packages. virthualenv creates an isolated environment like cabal-dev. cabal-dev by default isolates a single cabal package, but virthualenv isolates multiple packages together. cabal-dev can isolate multiple packages together by using the -s sandbox argument

virthualenv works at the shell level, so every shell must activate the virthualenv.

cabal-src

Michael Snoyman just released the cabal-src tool, which helps resolve dependency conflicts when installing local packages. Whenever you would use cabal install for a local package, use cabal-src-install instead. Our installer script now uses cabal-src-install when it is available.

Building Yesod

# update your package database if you haven't recently
cabal update
# install required libraries
cabal install Cabal cabal-install cabal-src virthualenv

# clone and install all repos
# see below about first using virthualenv before running ./scripts/install
for repo in hamlet persistent wai yesod; do
  git clone http://github.com/yesodweb/$repo
  (
    cd $repo
    git submodule update --init
    ./scripts/install
  )
done

Hacking on Yesod

To prevent Yesod from conflicting with your other installs, you should use virthualenv, although it is optional.

virthualenv

cabal update
cabal install virthualenv
cd yesodweb # the folder where you put the yesod, persistent, hamlet & wai repos
virthualenv --name=yesod
. .virthualenv/bin/activate

individual cabal packages

# install and test all packages
./scripts/install

# move to the individual package you are working on
cd shakespeare-text

# build and test the individual package
cabal configure -ftest --enable-tests
cabal build
cabal test

cabal-dev

cabal-dev works very well if you are working on a single package, but it can be very cumbersome to work on multiple packages at once.

Use your development version of Yesod in your application

Note that we have recommended to you to install Yesod into a sandboxed virthualenv environment. This is great for development, but when you want to use these development versions in your application that means they are not available through your user/global cabal database for your application. You should just continue to use your yesod virthualenv shell for your application.

You can also use cabal-dev install to retrieve these packages. cd to your application directory, and the reference the source list.

cabal-dev install /path/to/yesodweb/yesod/*(/)