On: Haskell at Front Row Education

[akurilin]

Any particular reason why Yesod isn't a good fit there? Is the team large enough where it makes more sense for you to roll your own and not deal with making it super generic?

[implicit → akurilin]

Yesod provides a ton of functionality related to the larger problem of building a website with Haskell, but we're only using Haskell for JSON services.

All those extra bells and whistles are wasted on us. :)

[axman6 → implicit]

Sounds like you need servant, i've found writing pretty minimal web services in it really nice.

[platz → axman6]

or Airship https://blog.helium.com/helium/2015/04/01/helium-webmachine-... which uses the webmachine model. Very nice for for APIs.