Useful packages for web devel

Web frame­works

Here are some bun­dles of web good­ness that help round out the over­all Rack­et web ex­pe­ri­ence.

HoLy

Sim­ple HTTP li­brary for cre­at­ing your web ap­pli­ca­tions and REST APIs eas­i­er.

koyo

Full-fea­tured web frame­work

routy

Light­weight high-per­for­mance HTTP re­quest router

spin

Write REST­ful web apps (→ un­of­fi­cial demo)

vela

Sim­ple web frame­work to build REST­ful apps

web-galaxy

A min­i­mal­ist web frame­work

Gen­er­at­ing, query­ing, and pars­ing XML and HTML

X-ex­pres­sions (xex­prs) are a wide­ly used rep­re­sen­ta­tion of HTML found in var­i­ous li­braries and in the core of the Rack­et web serv­er. It stemps from a time be­fore HTML5, but it works just fine.

gillette

XPath for Rack­et

html-pars­ing

Parse HTML

html-writ­ing

Se­ri­al­ize HTML

laramie

HTML5 pars­er

tx­ex­pr

Con­ve­nience func­tions for X-ex­pres­sions

xe

Xex­pr XML util­i­ties, plus tra­ver­sal and fil­ter­ing

xex­pr-path

XML Ex­pres­sion Path Lookup

CSS

css-expr

CSS, the Lisp way (S-ex­pres­sions)

css-tools

Tools for gen­er­at­ing & ma­nip­u­lat­ing CSS

Data­bas­es and kin

db

Con­nect­ing to pop­u­lar re­la­tion­al data­bas­es (Post­gres, MySQL, SQLite, etc.)

deta

Func­tion­al data­base map­per

mem­cached

Us­ing mem­cached in your Rack­et pro­grams

mon­godb

Mon­goDB client

north

#lang for data­base mi­gra­tions

rac­quel

Rack­et-style Ob­ject-re­la­tion­al map­ping

re­dis-rkt

Re­dis client

sql

SQL as S-ex­pres­sions

HTTP

Rack­et comes with an HTTP client that may work just fine for your pur­pos­es. If you’re look­ing for some­thing with a bit more flex­i­bil­i­ty and pow­er, try these op­tions.

http-easy

Sim­ple HTTP client

http123

HTTP client (sup­ports HTTP2)

rack­et­mq

W3C Web­Sub

rfc6455

Han­dling Web Sock­ets

scgi

(Sim­ple) Com­mon Gate­way In­ter­face (SCGI/CGI)

JSON

Rack­et comes with a rep­re­sen­ta­tion for JSON called js­ex­prs But you may need a bit more than those such ba­sic func­tion­al­i­ty.

argo

JSON Schema val­i­da­tion

json-point­er

Parse, ren­der, and eval­u­ate JSON Point­er

JavaScript/EC­MAScript

We all know that JavaScript is king of the web. (Whether you like that or not, well, that’s a dif­fer­ent sto­ry.) Rack­et can help with with that.

ec­mascript

Pars­er, run­time and #lang for EC­MAScript

javascript

im­ple­men­ta­tion of JavaScript

rack­etscript

light­weight Rack­et to JavaScript com­pil­er

urlang

Write JavaScript with Rack­et syn­tax

Sys­tems, In­fra­struc­ture, En­vi­ron­ment

It’s (prob­a­bly) not enough to just fire up a dis­patch­er/servlet. You need to man­age all sorts of oth­er stuff around your ap­pli­ca­tion.

aws

Con­nect to Ama­zon Web Ser­vices (AWS)

dotenv

Ex­tend the en­vi­ron­ment by load­ing files

envy

En­vi­ron­ment vari­able man­ag­er

re­load­able

Sup­port for code-re­load­ing for long-run­ning rack­et pro­grams (such as web servers)

Cryp­to and ran­dom num­bers

Pass­words. Ran­dom data. Keys. Ugh?

base64

Base64 en­cod­ing & de­cod­ing

bcrypt

In­ter­face to bcrypt

cryp­to

Cryp­tog­ra­phy li­brary

libar­gon2

Li­brary for in­ter­fac­ing with the Ar­gon2 key de­riva­tion func­tion

net-jwt

JSON Web To­ken and JSON Web Sig­na­ture (RFC 7519 and RFC 7515)

uuid

Gen­er­ate UUIDs in Rack­et

Test­ing

mar­i­onette

Con­trol Fire­fox via the Mar­i­onette Pro­to­col

re­quest

Con­struct­ing HTTP and REST-ful re­questers and in­te­gra­tion tests

ri­poste

Script­ing lan­guage for black-box test­ing JSON-based HTTP APIs

Mis­cel­la­neous and web-ad­ja­cent

Stuff that doesn’t be­long in any of the oth­er buck­ets above.

forms

Han­dling web form(let)s

rapi­der

Web scrap­ing frame­work