Comment by amirmc | Hacker News Reader

Comment by amirmc | Hacker News Reader

This looks interesting and it would be cool to see more OCaml/web projects.

Other webby things in OCaml include Ocsigen project [1], which is where js_of_ocaml and Lwt came from (for a while there was also the web framework Ohm, but I think development stopped). There are probably many others that I'm not yet aware of.

Personally, I'd love to have a blog-aware static site generator in pure OCaml, that's as straightforward to set up and use as Jekyll -- major bonus points for also being OPAM-aware [2], so you can easily include your packages and docs. So far I haven't found one but I can't be the only one to want this.

[1] http://ocsigen.org

[2] OPAM is the package manager for OCaml.

Edit: I've now added the static-site idea to the MirageOS Pioneer Projects page https://github.com/mirage/mirage-www/wiki/Pioneer-Projects

Have you heard about Stog[1]?

To complete your list there is also Opium[2], which is a very nice minimalistic web framework.

Also there are some interesting web projects listed in Awesome OCaml list[3].

[1]: http://zoggy.github.io/stog/

[2]: https://github.com/rgrinberg/opium

[3]: https://github.com/rizo/awesome-ocaml#web-development

The main reason I wrote this is because I can't find a lightweight web framework for OCaml. I am familiar with ocsigen but I can't even figure out how to navigate around the website nevermind the codebase or documentation. I still have no clue what I'm looking at when on the site. It comes off too "enterprisy."

I just wanted to provide a simple interface in a familiar environment (github) to give beginners a chance to play around with OCaml on the server.

Docs would be highly appreciated.

Definitely, top of my list.

Haven't used it, but I have stumbled upon stog [1], a static site generator in Ocaml that claims to be "kind of Jekyll developed in Ocaml".

[1] http://zoggy.github.io/stog/

I was aware of Stog but wasn't ready to try it out as it didn't seem to be quite what I was after. Seems there have been new releases since back then (and a video) so I'll give it another look.

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