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Welcome to the PureScript wiki! This wiki is meant to be a collaborative effort, so please feel free to add/edit content where it is appropriate to do so.

Introduction

PureScript is a small strongly, statically typed compile-to-JS language with a number of interesting features, such as:

• Type Inference
• Higher Kinded Polymorphism
• Support for basic Javascript types
• Extensible records
• Extensible effects
• Optimizer rules for generation of efficient Javascript
• Pattern matching
• Simple FFI
• Modules
• Rank N Types
• Do Notation
• Tail-call elimination
• Type Classes

Libraries

• Recommended Libraries
• Style Guide
• 24 Days of PureScript 2014

Tools

• Editor and tool support
• Pursuit search engine

Development Environments

• PureScript and Docker
• PureScript and NixOS

Articles

• First Steps With PureScript - Solving Project Euler #1
• The Foreign Function Interface
• Handling Native Effects with the Eff Monad
• FFI Tips
• Test your Javascript with QuickCheck
• PureScript Without Node

Language Guides

The PureScript Book is the recommended approach to learning the language, since it covers more material in greater depth. Here is the old (now out-of-date) language guide:

• Old Language Guide

Related Languages

• Related Projects
• Differences from Haskell
• Alternate compiler backends for various target languages

TL;DR

• Install PureScript
• Install Node.js: brew install node/pacman -S nodejs/choco install nodejs/Download Node.js
• Install Pulp: npm install -g pulp
• GO: pulp init, pulp dep install purescript-tuples, pulp build --to output.js, etc.