Cloned Repo and Tried to Run `examples/basic.hs` about scotty HOT 5 CLOSED

Yeah, I've never even bothered with runhaskell, GHCi and cabal usually work just fine. I think it is worth mentioning that the example basic.hs also requires wai-extra, random, http-types and text in order to run using cabal. Not exactly basic for a beginner.

Even after installing all of that and reaching Setting phasers to stun... (port 3000) (ctrl-c to quit), I can't view anything on localhost on Safari or via curl.

What am I doing wrong? What is it supposed to display?

Also, can scotty be used as an alternative to NGINX or is it more similar to Hakyll?

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Closing this as it doesn't seem to be a scotty issue.

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Hi @lukemccartney , we don't have a way to test your exact setup.
Personally, I haven't used runhaskell in like 10 years (our README could use some double checking in that regard).

I usually do Haskell work via stack on MacOS without a problem. Could you try stack build && stack exec -- scotty-basic ?
I imagine cabal would have no problem either.

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Hitting the root endpoint should return "foobar" as response, see

https://github.com/scotty-web/scotty/blob/master/examples/basic.hs#L35

I think you would have to build a fair bit of stuff on top of scotty to make it function like nginx.
Hakyll is a static website editing tool instead, the actual serving is done by anything that can serve static files .

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I'll give it a go using stack instead of cabal and see if I can get it to return "foobar". I didn't think it was similar to Hakyll but I thought it may be possible to use it as a web server on a Digital Ocean droplet to display a static HTML file.

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