florentc / diary-viewer

diary-viewer

Warning This is a dirty experimental learning playground. Not intended to be more.

A diary is a directory that contains text files YYYY-MM-DD Some title.txt corresponding to daily entries.

A web server (in backend) written in Haskell using servant provides a REST API to interact with the diary (located in backend/diary) along with a web socket endpoint to signal about live changes in the directory.

A frontend (in frontend) provides a React + Material UI user interface. It is served with Vite.

Setup

1. Have nix with flakes enabled (if not, install the dependencies mentionned in flake.nix manually and skip step 2)
2. Enter the dev shell with nix develop
3. In backend
   • Generate the cabal file with hpack
   • Run the API server with cabal run
4. In frontend
   • Run the Vite server with yarn dev