0 to Haskell web development on Windows in 10 minutes

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1. Download https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/releases/download/v0.1.2.0/stack-0.1.2.0-x86_64-windows.zip
2. Create the folder %APPDATA%\local\bin (e.g. "c:\Users\Michael\AppData\Roaming\local\bin") if it doesn't exist
3. Extract the zip file above there 
4. Append the folder location where stack installs user applications on your path: C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\local\bin\ (e.g. "C:\Users\Michael\AppData\Roaming\local\bin")
5. WARNING: Be sure that the paths you added don't have any spaces or you'll run into problems.
7. Create a folder (e.g. C:\Users\Michael\my-spock-project) for your project
8. Open a cmd.exe and navigate (e.g. cd C:\Users\Michael\my-spock-project) to your projects folder
9. stack setup
10. stack new
11. Open new-template.cabal and find the section called library. Go to the section called build-depends and on the next line put ", Spock" without the quotes.
12. Save the following into app/Main.hs:

{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
module Main where

import Data.Monoid
import Web.Spock.Safe

main :: IO ()
main =
    runSpock 8080 $ spockT id $
    do get root $
           text "Hello World!"
       get ("hello" <//> var) $ \name ->
           text ("Hello " <> name <> "!")

13. stack install
14. new-template-exe
15. Visit http://localhost:8080 in your browser