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If you want to do web development with Haskell beyond building a blog generator, a good starting point is IHP (https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/ https://github.com/digitallyinduced/ihp). 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)

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I think IHP for learning Haskell has the same flaw that Rails always did. You have no idea what is part of the language and what is part of the framework. You'll get stuck once you stray from the golden path.

I'd recommend starting with Scotty instead. It's much easier to understand what it is doing. Use Lucid for HTML rendering, and your choice of DB libraries (I like Selda). These all avoid template haskell and don't rename any prelude functions. If you add them one at a time you'll see what each one is offering and understand where to go when you need to do something more complicated

I was tempted to try it, but then I saw that some core features (like mysql) are for paid versions only so its a big red flag already

Mysql support is not implemented at the moment. If there's someone paying for the development we could have it. You're of course also free to contribute it yourself to the open source version, then it wouldn't need to be part of the commercial version.

Some more background on why IHP has a paid variant can be found here: https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/blog/6392ad84-e96a-46ce-9ab...

I don't get it. How can it be part of the commercial version if it is not implemented.

Not OP, but it sounds like MySQL support isn't out yet. So I think the business plan can help them get paid to implement it. No clue if that means the FOSS version would receive those upstream changes once it's done.

software needs work and devs have bills. its unfortunate but we don't have a government currently giving grants to open source devs yet.

I'm really not a fan of IHP for that purpose due to how it redefines so much of the Haskell Prelude without making it clear it does that.

Ah, I was wondering why you post about IHP on most Haskell threads here and I just noticed it is a commercial product. You should probably disclose that this is an advertisement if it is permitted at all.

IHP is mostly an open source project.

I comment on most Haskell threads about IHP because I would love to see more Haskell adoption. Most people think Haskell is about Monads and Math, with IHP we want to show that Haskell can be used in a very productive way to build things. The comments are typically well received, so I don't see any problem with this.

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