monomer

A GUI library for writing native Haskell applications.

http://github.com/fjvallarino/monomer#readme

LTS Haskell 22.44:1.6.0.1
Stackage Nightly 2023-12-26:1.6.0.0
Latest on Hackage:1.6.0.1

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BSD-3-Clause licensed by Francisco Vallarino
Maintained by [email protected]
This version can be pinned in stack with:monomer-1.6.0.1@sha256:ebb40b3dacbef7f6758b96b7af5e0f0dfc30eb3f81331cca5196402dd11c0534,17587

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monomer

An easy to use, cross platform, GUI library for writing native Haskell applications.

Monomer provides a framework similar to the Elm Architecture, allowing the creation of GUIs using an extensible set of widgets with pure Haskell.

Objectives

  • Be easy to learn and use.
  • Be extensible with custom widgets.
  • Run on Windows, Linux and macOS.
  • Have good documentation.
  • Have good examples.

These are not objectives for this project

  • Have a native look and feel.

Why would you want to use this library?

  • You want to write your application in Haskell.
  • You want to write a native, not web based, application.

Documentation

Setup

You can read how to setup your environment here.

Tutorials

Introductory tutorials are available:

Examples

Beyond the tutorials, a few real world like examples are available:

Haddock

You can read the source code’s documentation here.

Design decisions

In case you wonder why some choices were made, you can read here.

Roadmap

  • Stability and performance.
  • Mobile support.

Project status

Although there has not been a lot of activity in the past year, the project is still active.

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