Snap is a

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written in the Haskell programming language.

Overview

The Snap framework comprises: * snap-core, a generic Haskell web server API. * snap-server, a fast HTTP server that implements the snap-core interface. * Heist, an HTML-based templating system for generating pages that allows you to bind Haskell functionality to HTML tags for a clean separation of view and backend code, much like

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's snippets. Heist is completely self-contained and can be used independently. * Snaplets, a high-level system for building modular web applications. * Built-in snaplets for templating, session management, and authentication. * Third party snaplets for features such as file uploads, database connectivity (

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, etc.), generation of

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from Haskell code, and more. * The Snap monad for stateful access to HTTP requests and responses. Snap runs on both Windows NT and Unix-like platforms. Snap uses th
Iteratee
I/O model, As of version 1.0, its i/o is implemented wit
io-streams

Usage

It is used by Silk, JanRain, Racemetric, www.lpaste.net, SooStone Inc, and Group Commerce. Snap is also used as a lightweight, standalone Haskell server. The static site generator Hakyll uses Snap for its preview mode.

Other Haskell web frameworks

* Yesod (web framework) * Scotty * Spock * MFlow * Miso

References

External links

Snap framework
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