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Add to SafariWhen comparing Apiary vs IHP, the Slant community recommends IHP for most people. In the question“What are the best Haskell web frameworks for building RESTful web services?” IHP is ranked 10th while Apiary is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose IHP is:
With the code generators even haskell beginners can easily build CRUD apps.
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Pros
Pro Automatically generates API documentation
Apiary generates comprehensive HTML documentation based on your API routes.
Pro Type-level routes
Apiary provides type modeling, down to URL parameters, ensuring type safety.
Pro Easy for beginners
With the code generators even haskell beginners can easily build CRUD apps.
Pro Under the hood
Code generators, database schema editors, etc. work with Haskell and SQL files, which can also be edited manually, to get 'under the hood'.
Pro Instant live reloading
Makes for a super smooth development experience.
Pro HSX
If you have experience with react, you feel right at home with the HSX view syntax.
Cons
Con Mediocre documentation
Users must rely primarily on the example project and auto-generated API documentation (Haddocks). The author of Apiary is not a native English speaker and openly acknowledges this issue.
Con (Small) Server deployment
I'm a bit unclear on the memory requirements for the server (which becomes less of an issue every following year).
