Web Development in Racket

• Serv­er: Rack­et ‘Practical advice for real-world web development with Racket’

  • Use­ful Rack­et pack­ages for web de­v­el

• https://defn.io/ Racket web dev blog posts and tools by Bogdan Popa

See also: FAQs: Web Server

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• Papers, Talks and Tutorials
• Examples
• Back-end Development
• Front-end Development
• Database tools
• Authentication and Authorization
• Testing
• Internals
• Related

Books

• Server: Racket: Develop a web application with Racket.

Papers, Talks and Tutorials

• Continue: Web Applications in Racket: tutorial on creating a database backed web application
• Web Applications in Racket: describes the Racket libraries for building Web applications.
• Web Server: HTTP Server: describes the internals of the Racket Web Server.
• Deploying Racket applications on Heroku
• The Missing Guide to Racket's Web Server
• Continuations in Racket's Web Server

Examples

• Nemea: Web analytics tracker.
• Pasterack: Racket pastebin. (source)
• Try Racket: Racket playground. (source)

The following working examples are on glitch.com. Racket is installed via the install.sh script and you can click the 'Remix to Edit🎤' button to make yourself a copy you can experiment with.

• Rantstack: a simple web app in Racket.
• elm-on-racket: a simple hello-world app, with an Elm frontend hosted by a simple Racket/Spin backend.

Back-End Development

Web Frameworks

See Use­ful Rack­et pack­ages for web de­v­el

• HoLy: A simple HTTP-server Library for Racket.
• koyo: A complete web application development toolkit.
• Raf: A simple REST Application Framework.
• Routy: A lightweight high performance HTTP request router for Racket.
• Spin: Write RESTful web apps in Racket.
• vela: Simple web framework to build RESTful app in Racket.
• web-galaxy: A minimalist web framework for the Racket web-server.

Web Sockets

• RFC 6455 WebSockets for Racket: provides RFC 6455 compatible WebSockets server and client interfaces for Racket, building on Racket’s web-server collection.

Static Site Generators

• frog
• polyglot: Create websites using a mix of any language or workflow.

HTTP Clients

• Request: Package for simplifying HTTP requests and writing integration tests of REST-ful APIs in Racket
• http-easy: a high-level HTTP client with support for connection pooling, file uploads and a load of other stuff.

JSON Processing

• Riposte—Scripting Language for JSON-based HTTP APIs
• json-pointer: Referring to bits of JSON: JSON Pointer (RFC 6901) is a straightforward notation for referring to values embedded within a JSON document. (Racket implementation of a JSON Pointer evaluator (RFC 6901))
• JSON: utilities for parsing and producing data in the JSON data exchange format to/from Racket values.
• JSONSourcery: A library built on top of the json package for improving JSON serialization and adding clearer syntax macros.

Protocol

• html5 Racket implementation of the HTML5 parsing algorithm.
• URI Template (RFC 6570) for Racket

Testing

• marionette: control Firefox browsers using Racket.

Web Services

• Amazon Web Services provides support for many of the Amazon Web Services.

Front-end Development

• Urlang 'Urlang is JavaScript with a sane syntax'
• RacketScript Racket to JavaScript Compiler
  • RacketScript Playground

Caching

• memcached: an interface to memcached.
• redis-rkt: a production-ready Redis client.

Database Tools

Authentication and Authorization

• https://github.com/johnstonskj/simple-oauth2
• https://github.com/tonyg/racket-google
• https://github.com/rmculpepper/webapi
• JSON Web Token (JWT) and JSON Web Signature (JWS): JSON Web Token parsing and verification in Racket (source)
• https://github.com/eu90h/racket-github-api
• https://github.com/nitros12/racket-cord
• dvanhorn/tweet.rkt (OAuth v1?)