Developing an application in Haskell

Peter Wong
1 min readMar 22, 2017

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Recently I have started a pet project to understand Haskell for web development. This project develops a Haskell application to talk to the IG streaming API which is a combination of a Restful API (for authentication and trading) and a Lightstreamer API for streaming realtime data. This allows me to investigate and understand the use of Haskell for the following functionalities:

  1. Reading and writing JSON objects
  2. Interacting with Restful API over HTTP(S)
  3. Interacting directly with HTTP(S) connections
  4. Managing concurrent threads
  5. Reading and writing to a relational database such as Postgres

In the subsequent stories, I want to write down my experience with the above functionalities.

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