Whiteboards

Inspiration

Noticing funny or interesting content left on whiteboards around the campus.

What it does

How I built it

• Haskell REST api backend using the servant library
• Elm frontend for a single page web app, used material design library for styling
• Persistent is a haskell library for communicating with a Postgres database

Challenges I ran into

• Learning a new language (Elm) and how to make single page web apps.
• sevant is a barebones so integrating what I needed
• Integrating a database with a haskell app

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

• I actually got something to work
• Got client side routing working
• Learning advanced haskell techniques

What I learned

• Elm and architecting single page web apps in elm
• Interacting with databases in haskell
• Client side rendering and routing

What's next for Whiteboards

• extend it with service workers for offline support

Built With

• elm
• haskell
• postgresql