From ffb095c0c7d22e5ee5977dcb9e5fa3444c26aabc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Julian K. Arni" Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 13:28:06 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] self-promote --- README.md | 37 +++++++++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 6bd5aa45..8aee5403 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,28 +1,27 @@ -# servant +# servant - A Type-Level Web DSL [![Build Status](https://secure.travis-ci.org/haskell-servant/servant.svg)](http://travis-ci.org/haskell-servant/servant) -[![Coverage Status](https://coveralls.io/repos/haskell-servant/servant/badge.svg)](https://coveralls.io/r/haskell-servant/servant) ![servant](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/haskell-servant/servant/master/servant.png) -These libraries provides a family of combinators to define webservices and -automatically generate the documentation and client-side querying functions for -each endpoint. +## Quotes -In order to minimize the dependencies depending on your needs, we provide these -features under different packages. +> Servant may just be the coolest single Haskell library. +> - ephrion, [reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/3g8jb0/contenttype_bliss/ctw75hg) + +
+ +> servant is awesome so far, there's really nothing else like it right now for +> haskell. ... It's absolutely fantastic, I look back at my old [other haskell +> web framework] code and it might as well have been javascript. Great work, +> just great. +> - dmj, #servant + +
+ +> It is one of the coolest libraries I have ever seen. +> - Taylor Fausak, [Type safe web services in Haskell with Servant](http://taylor.fausak.me/2015/08/23/type-safe-web-services-in-haskell-with-servant/) -- `servant`, which contains everything you need to *declare* a webservice API. -- `servant-server`, which lets you *implement* an HTTP server with handlers for -each endpoint of an API. -- `servant-client`, which lets you derive automatically Haskell functions that -let you query each endpoint of a `servant` webservice. -- `servant-docs`, which lets you generate API docs for your webservice. -- `servant-js`, which lets you derive Javascript functions (using vanilla JS -ajax requests, angular or jquery) to query your API's endpoints, in the same -spirit as `servant-client`. -- `servant-blaze` and `servant-lucid` provide easy HTML rendering of your data -as an `HTML` content-type "combinator". ## Tutorial @@ -31,6 +30,8 @@ introduces the core types and features of servant. After this article, you should be able to write your first servant webservices, learning the rest from the haddocks' examples. +Other blog posts, videos and slides can be found on the [website](http://haskell-servant.github.io/) + ## Contributing Contributions are very welcome! To hack on the github version, clone the