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Running try-purescript without a local backend

1. Switch to the gh-pages branch
2. Use an http server to serve try-purescript (example: python -m SimpleHTTPServer or http-server -p 3000)
3. Open your browser at http://localhost:8000 (or whichever port you used to serve) and you should see the try-purescript app

Running try-purescript with a local backend

Use the Haskell Stack build tool to build the backend:

• Clone the repo
• Run stack build (you might also need --install ghc)

Install the core try-purescript packages:

(cd staging/core && psc-package update)

You might need to change the version in psc-pacakge.json to the current compiler version installed on your machine (for example: "set": "psc-0.10.5")

After that you can run the server with:

stack exec trypurescript -- 3333 staging/core/.psc-package/psc-0.10.4/*/*/src/**/*.purs staging/core/src/TryPureScript.purs

You will also need to change the endpoint for core to point to your local backend:

1. Switch again to gh-pages
2. Change this line to:

 endpoint: "http://localhost:3333",

or similar

Actually, it will be easier to just clone the repo twice and keep one branch on master for the backend and one branch on gh-pages for the frontend.

Hope this helps.

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Thanks for the tip and for the help, really appreciated @soupi :)

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That's great! So I don't really need a server, I could host the static files on S3 or the likes and go from there.

Thank you so much for this @soupi, is it already written somewhere or what about adding it to the README?

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What is your use case? we might be able to help more if we knew what you are trying to do :)

I can PR this if @paf31 wants it.

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Ah yes sure! So I'm at Recurse Center (https://www.recurse.com/), me and a fellow recurser with Haskell experience are trying to come up with an online interactive website that could teach fundamental principles of functional programming in a typed language, for newbies like myself :D

So the idea is to have some theory explaining a subject, a few exercises followed by an input in which they could evaluate their answers, we would use the local version of try.purescript.org to evaluate the answers. That's one of the goals of our batch here, we are evaluating different solutions and one of those is PureScript.

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Good luck! If you have further questions on PureScript specifically you might want to ask in IRC/Slack/Reddit/Mailing list where it'll get better exposure.

Also, you might also want to check Code World as well as you might have similar goals :)

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@soupi I forgot about to ask (and sorry if this is not the best place), if it's ok to make calls to try.purescript.org to get back results in our project, which is all about learning functional programming using PureScript.

We don't expect to hammer it at all, both because we won't be showing the project a lot in the beginning and both because we call the endpoint on a specific key combination, not on onchange.

Please let me know your thoughts, and thanks again for your efforts on PureScript!

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Best to ask @paf31 this kind of question :)

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@lazywithclass Go for it :) Please let me know if you expect the usage to increase a lot, but for moderate use, that's what it's there for.

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@paf31 that's great thanks! Yes, I will definitely come back if our project grows in terms of usage.

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