Awesome PureScript – Massive Collection of Resources

A curated list of delightful libraries, tools and other shiny things for PureScript.

Build Tooling

• pulp
• psvm-js – PureScript Version Manager
• purescript-psa – A pretty, flexible error/warning reporting frontend for psc
• grunt-purescript
• gulp-purescript
• purs-loader for webpack
• psc-package – A package manager for PureScript based on package sets
• spago – PureScript package manager and build tool powered by Dhall and package-sets

Preludes

• purescript-prelude – The standard Prelude.
• purescript-batteries – A PureScript prelude with more features.

UI Libraries

CSS:

• purescript-css – A clean, type-safe library for describing, manipulating and rendering CSS.

React-based:

• purescript-thermite – A simple wrapper for ReactJS inspired by react-blaze.
• purescript-react – React bindings for PureScript
• purescript-react-basic – An opinionated set of bindings to the React library, optimizing for the most basic use cases.
• purescript-react-basic-hooks – An alternative way to define React components using React’s “hooks” APIs. Compatible with purescript-react-basic.
• purescript-pux – Build type-safe web apps with PureScript.
• purescript-spork – Elm-like for PureScript.
• purescript-concur – Concur UI framework. React backend, but can use others.
• purescript-presto – Write Apps like Mathematical Equations!
• purescript-optic-ui – Write single page web user interfaces declaratively and concisely with the help of lenses and traversals.
• purescript-react-explor – Experiments with comonads for modelling React UIs.

Virtual-DOM based:

• purescript-halogen – A declarative, type-safe UI library.

Signals/Behaviors/FRP:

• purescript-flare – Applicative-style reactive user interfaces built on top of purescript-signal.
• purescript-turbine – Purely functional frontend framework powered by FRP.
• purescript-outwatch – A functional and reactive UI framework based on Rx and VirtualDom.
• purescript-panda – What would TEA look like if we had no VDOM?
• purescript-specular – A Reflex-Dom inspired UI library for PureScript.
• purescript-sdom – An experiment in replacing the virtual DOM and avoiding diffing.
• purescript-purview – A UI library based on the incremental lambda calculus.

URL Routers

• purescript-routing – A clean, type-safe routing library for PureScript.
• purescript-cofree-react-router – React-Router implemented in PureScript as Cofree Comonad for the Array functor.
• purescript-trout – Type-level routing for PureScript.
• purescript-boomboom – Never hard code your urls again. Boomboom them all!

Components

• purescript-halogen-formless – A renderless component for building painless forms in Halogen
• purescript-halogen-select – Building blocks for common selection user interfaces like dropdowns, typeaheads, image pickers, and calendars.
• purescript-halogen-echarts – A Halogen integration for the popular ECharts charting library
• purescript-halogen-day-picker – A day picker for Halogen
• purescript-halogen-menu – Interactive menus in Halogen

Asynchronicity and Parallelism

• purescript-aff – An asynchronous effect monad for PureScript.
• purescript-affjax – An asynchronous AJAX library built using Aff.
• purescript-queue – An asynchronous queue library for PureScript.
• purescript-signal – An asynchronous signal library for PureScript, similar to Elm.
• purescript-zeta – An alternative signal implementation in PureScript.

Effect Management

• purescript-eff – The Eff monad, for handling native side effects.
• purescript-effect – The Effect monad, for handling native side effects in PureScript v0.12.x.

Json Serialization

• purescript-argonaut – Json encoding and decoding typeclasses.
• purescript-simple-json – Json encoding and decoding through Generics.

Binary Serialization

• purescript-arraybuffer – Bindings to the ArrayBuffer JavaScript type.
• purescript-arraybuffer-class – Typeclasses for ArrayBuffer encoding and decoding.

Testing

• purescript-test-unit – An asynchronous unit test runner for PureScript.
• purescript-quickcheck – An implementation of QuickCheck in PureScript.
• purescript-quickcheck-laws – Law tests for core classes.
• purescript-benchotron – Straightforward benchmarking for PureScript/JavaScript.

Learning Resources

• Video – “PureScript (Maybe This Time We Get JavaScript Right)” by Bodil Stokke
• Book – “PureScript by Example” by Phil Freeman
• Book (ish) – Jordan’s Purescript Reference
• PureScript for Haskellers by Dennis Gosnell
• Podcast – Functional Geekery Episode 22
• Podcast – JSJ 189
• Course (egghead.io) – Functional Programming Concepts in Purescript
• Guide – Real World Halogen

Discovery

• Module Linker – Extension that lets you browse docs by just clicking on import declarations on GitHub.
• Pursuit

Editor and IDE Plugins

See Editor and tool support

Community

• /r/purescript subreddit
• #purescript on Freenode
• Stack Overflow purescript tag
• Google Group

More Resources

• Purescript Ecosystem – Ranked list of popular libraries.