Web View

Type-safe HTML and CSS with intuitive layout and composable styles. Inspired by Tailwindcss and Elm-UI

Write Haskell instead of CSS

Type-safe utility functions to generate styled HTML.

myPage = col (gap 10) $ do
  el (bold . fontSize 32) "My page"
  button (border 1) "Click Me"

Leverage the full power of Haskell functions for reuse, instead of relying on CSS.

header = bold
h1 = header . fontSize 32
h2 = header . fontSize 24
page = gap 10

myPage = col page $ do
  el h1 "My Page"
  ...

This approach is inspired by Tailwindcss' Utility Classes

Intuitive Layouts

Easily create layouts with row, col, grow, and space

holygrail :: View c ()
holygrail = layout id $ do
  row section "Top Bar"
  row grow $ do
    col section "Left Sidebar"
    col (section . grow) "Main Content"
    col section "Right Sidebar"
  row section "Bottom Bar"
  where section = 'border' 1

Embedded CSS

Views track which styles are used in any child node, and automatically embed all CSS when rendered.

>>> renderText $ el bold "Hello"

<style type='text/css'>.bold { font-weight:bold }</style>
<div class='bold'>Hello</div>

Stateful Styles

We can apply styles when certain states apply. For example, to change the background on hover:

button (bg Primary . hover (bg PrimaryLight)) "Hover Me"

Media states allow us to create responsive designs

el (width 100 . media (MinWidth 800) (width 400))
  "Big if window > 800"

Try Example Project with Nix

If you want to get a feel for web-view without cloning the project run nix run github:seanhess/web-view to run the example webserver locally

Import Flake

You can import this flake's overlay to add web-view to overriddenHaskellPackages and which provides a ghc966 and ghc982 package set that satisfy web-view's dependencies.

{
  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-unstable";
    web-view.url = "github:seanhess/web-view"; # or "path:/path/to/cloned/web-view";
    flake-utils.url = "github:numtide/flake-utils";
  };

  outputs = { self, nixpkgs, web-view, flake-utils, ... }:
    flake-utils.lib.eachDefaultSystem (
      system:
      let
        pkgs = import nixpkgs {
          inherit system;
          overlays = [ web-view.overlays.default ];
        };
        haskellPackagesOverride = pkgs.overriddenHaskellPackages.ghc966.override (old: {
          overrides = pkgs.lib.composeExtensions (old.overrides or (_: _: { })) (hfinal: hprev: {
            # your overrides here
          });
        });
      in
      {
        devShells.default = haskellPackagesOverride.shellFor {
          packages = p: [ p.web-view ];
        };
      }
    );
}

Local Development

Recommended ghcid command

If you want to work on both the web-view library and example code, this ghcid command will run and reload the examples server as you change any non-testing code.

ghcid --command="cabal repl exe:example lib:web-view" --run=Main.main --warnings --reload=./embed/preflight.css

If you want to work on the test suite, this will run the tests each time any library code is changed.

ghcid --command="cabal repl test lib:web-view" --run=Main.main --warnings --reload=./embed/preflight.css

Nix

• nix flake check will build the library, example executable and devShell with ghc-9.8.2 and ghc-9.6.6
  • This is what the CI on GitHub runs
• nix run or nix run .#ghc982-example to start the example project with GHC 9.8.2
  • nix run .#ghc966-example to start the example project with GHC 9.6.6
• nix develop or nix develop .#ghc982-shell to get a shell with all dependencies installed for GHC 9.8.2.
  • nix develop .#ghc966-shell to get a shell with all dependencies installed for GHC 9.6.6.
• nix build, nix build .#ghc982-web-view and nix build .#ghc966-web-view builds the library with the overriddenHaskellPackages
  • If you want to import this flake, use the overlay
• nix flake update nixpkgs will update the Haskell package sets and development tools

Common Nix Issues

Not Allowed to Refer to GHC

If you get an error like:

error: output '/nix/store/64k8iw0ryz76qpijsnl9v87fb26v28z8-my-haskell-package-1.0.0.0' is not allowed to refer to the following paths:
         /nix/store/5q5s4a07gaz50h04zpfbda8xjs8wrnhg-ghc-9.6.3

Follow these instructions

Dependencies Incorrect

You will need to update the overlay, look for where it says "${packageName}" = hfinal.callCabal2nix packageName src { }; and add a line like Diff = hfinal.callHackage "Diff" "0.5" { }; with the package and version you need.

Missing Files

Check the include inside the nix-filter.lib to see if all files needed by cabal are there.

Learn More

View Documentation on Hackage

• https://hackage.haskell.org/package/web-view

View on Github

• https://github.com/seanhess/web-view

View Examples

Contributors

• Sean Hess
• Kamil Figiela
• Pfalzgraf Martin