Minimal Warp webserver example

Question

I want to create a website using the Warp webserver in Haskell.

As I'm a Haskell beginner, examples like this one are too complex for me.

Can anyone show me a simple, minimal example of how to use Warp?

Note: This question intentionally shows no research effort as it was answered Q&A-style.

Answer 1

Here's a minimal Hello World application using Warp 3.0+. Run it, then navigate to http://localhost:3000. This example will show Hello world.

In order to keep this example minimal, URL paths are not handled at all (the same content is delivered for any path). For a slightly longer example incorporating URL path handling, see the Haskell Wiki

{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}

import Network.Wai (responseLBS, Application)
import Network.Wai.Handler.Warp (run)
import Network.HTTP.Types (status200)
import Network.HTTP.Types.Header (hContentType)

main = do
  let port = 3000
  putStrLn $ "Listening on port " <> show port
  run port app

app :: Application
app _req f =
  f $ responseLBS status200 [(hContentType, "text/plain")] "Hello world!"