README.md

servant-js

This library lets you derive automatically Javascript functions that let you query each endpoint of a servant webservice.

It contains a powerful system allowing you to generate functions for several frameworks (Angular, AXios, JQuery) as well as vanilla (framework-free) javascript code.

Example

Read more about the following example here.

{-# LANGUAGE DataKinds #-}
{-# LANGUAGE TypeOperators #-}
{-# LANGUAGE DeriveGeneric #-}
{-# LANGUAGE GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving #-}

import Control.Concurrent.STM
import Control.Monad.IO.Class
import Data.Aeson
import Data.Proxy
import GHC.Generics
import Network.Wai.Handler.Warp (run)
import Servant
import Servant.JS
import System.FilePath

-- * A simple Counter data type
newtype Counter = Counter { value :: Int }
  deriving (Generic, Show, Num)

instance ToJSON Counter

-- * Shared counter operations

-- Creating a counter that starts from 0
newCounter :: IO (TVar Counter)
newCounter = newTVarIO 0

-- Increasing the counter by 1
counterPlusOne :: MonadIO m => TVar Counter -> m Counter
counterPlusOne counter = liftIO . atomically $ do
  oldValue <- readTVar counter
  let newValue = oldValue + 1
  writeTVar counter newValue
  return newValue

currentValue :: MonadIO m => TVar Counter -> m Counter
currentValue counter = liftIO $ readTVarIO counter

-- * Our API type
type TestApi = "counter" :> Post '[JSON] Counter -- endpoint for increasing the counter
          :<|> "counter" :> Get  '[JSON] Counter -- endpoint to get the current value

type TestApi' = TestApi -- The API we want a JS handler for
           :<|> Raw     -- used for serving static files

-- this proxy only targets the proper endpoints of our API,
-- not the static file serving bit
testApi :: Proxy TestApi
testApi = Proxy

-- this proxy targets everything
testApi' :: Proxy TestApi'
testApi' = Proxy

-- * Server-side handler

-- where our static files reside
www :: FilePath
www = "examples/www"

-- defining handlers
server :: TVar Counter -> Server TestApi
server counter = counterPlusOne counter     -- (+1) on the TVar
            :<|> currentValue counter       -- read the TVar

server' :: TVar Counter -> Server TestApi'
server' counter = server counter
             :<|> serveDirectory www         -- serve static files

runServer :: TVar Counter -- ^ shared variable for the counter
          -> Int          -- ^ port the server should listen on
          -> IO ()
runServer var port = run port (serve testApi' $ server' var)

main :: IO ()
main = do
  -- write the JS code to www/api.js at startup
  writeJSForAPI testApi jquery (www </> "api.js")

  -- setup a shared counter
  cnt <- newCounter

  -- listen to requests on port 8080
  runServer cnt 8080