purescript-halogen-driver

A collection of alternative drivers and utilities for purescript-halogen

Motivation

Halogen is a fairly agnostic package. It comes with a driver for rendering to the browser, and that's super useful. However, we can also interpret Halogen components in other ways. This package seeks to explore those other ways.

Drivers

Aff _

Currently, we can evaluate a component directly to Aff _. It ignores most of the behavior that would render to a browser, and concentrates on the eval value of a component.

We can use this driver for all sorts of things. One particularly useful way to use it is to validate eval logic. We can do this validation using a test package.

Although there is a way to work directly with components, it's often more useful to work with parts of the components. Validating eval logic is quite a bit easier if we work with eval as the abstraction rather than an entire component as the abstraction.