On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 6:38 AM, Ben <yfe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear All, > > I'm trying to learn web application development. I know how to program > Racket but I know little about web applications.
Hi Ben, The Racket documentation explains our Web API, but doesn't always explain why you need these things in the larger context of Web programs. > There is a tutorial and an API document about web applications on the > official site of Racket. But they are not enough for me. I don't even know > how to handle cookies and realize user registration. Cookies: - http://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/http.html?q=cookie#%28mod-path._web-server%2Fhttp%2Fcookie%29 - http://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/http.html?q=cookie#%28mod-path._web-server%2Fhttp%2Fid-cookie%29 - http://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/http.html?q=cookie#%28mod-path._web-server%2Fhttp%2Fcookie-parse%29 User Registration: - Create a form that gets the username and password - Look it up in a database---(require db) - Create a secure cookie to send back and check it > I can't find any other books or tutorials on this. I then think up two more > paths for learning: > > 1. Learn in Ruby/Python/Node first, because they have more books, tutorials, > videos, online courses ... And come back to Racket if I'm still interested. > > 2. Learn from other people's Racket projects. But I don't know whether > there exist such kind of open source projects for Racket. Here are ones just on Github: https://github.com/search?q=language%3Aracket&type=Repositories&ref=searchresults I have a few that are Web apps: https://github.com/jeapostrophe?tab=repositories > What's your suggestion on this? > > Thanks, > Ben > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > -- Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
