A beginner's feedback

[chkl]

Hi,

in the last days I experimented a little with Reflex & Obelisk and I thought, maybe someone could find this feedback useful. Please feel free to ignore it. Otherwise, I'm happy to elaborate and/or create some PRs with suggested changes.

Learning Material

• reflex-frp.org is a great starting point
• this style of FRP looks incredibly promising for developing large applications.
• some things I noticed that could be improved:
  • Obelisk.Route looks really daunting.The haddock could have some higher-level information e.g. what are the design goals, what is an Encoder,...?
  • Integration with existing backends: Is it possible to create some kind of wildcard-Route e.g. /api/...? This could be used to implement the backend calls with servant-snap and get the clients for free via servant-reflex.
  • The tutorial (https://reflex-frp.org/tutorial) does not use the fact (nor mentions) that Dynamic is an Applicative. Instead it uses zipDynWith.

Contributing

• reflex-frp.org differs from the master branch of https://github.com/reflex-frp/reflex-frp.org.

[3noch]

@chkl Thank you so much for your feedback! We have taken inventory of your suggestions and hope to resolve at least some of them soon!