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Great, I'll need to mine that for ideas, thanks for sharing! Are IMVU web-services also Yesod-based?

They are for now, but we've been whittling away at it.

We don't actually use any of Yesod's affordances except for its router. We're aiming to eventually split that off and run on bare Warp.

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?

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. :)

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

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

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