yak

Exploring what it's like to develop a fullstack app in Gleam

Overview

Automatic rebuild with Watchexec
Caddy as a dev server with local HTTPS
UI is written in Lustre (and my ham-fisted attempt at recreating the app structure of elm-spa but without routing) and is built with Vite
Backend uses elli and docker-compose for managing the database (and other services in the future)
Features a shared module with common types and json codecs/decoders
Uses my WIP CORS library (and my fork of gleam/fetch to add support for session cookies)

Initial setup

run make db-reset to initialize the project's database (see yak_backend/reset.sql)
cd yak_ui and npm install
clone ffigiel/gleam_cors and ffigiel/fetch adjacent to this project's directory
add 127.0.0.1 yak.localhost api.yak.localhost to your hosts file

Development

Run make to start a dev server and navigate to https://yak.localhost:3000/

Testing

You can run tests via make test or make test-watch