Getting Started
The problem
Have you ever tried configuring a Haskell application? If you are not the author you are usually out of luck and the only way to configure it is recompiling, and even if you are the author you have to write that logic yourself (reading env vars, files or cli params), what about partial values? and defaults? and environments? or error handling?
One solution: Conferer
Conferer is a library that defines ways of getting configuration for your Haskell application and the libraries it uses in a very ergonomic way.
Features
Simple and lightweight
Conferer is designed to be as simple as possible but no more. Browsing the source code
shouldn't throw a beginner into a spiral of doom. As such, the core library has very
few dependencies (only ghc-bundled dependencies) since most dependencies reside in the
project specific packages like warp, hspec, etc.
Low Boilerplate
By leveraging Generics, we get a lot for free without having to write more code than the strictly necessary.
Good defaults without compromising extensibility
By default, the library is usable without writing too much code but many point of extension are set in place to ease the adding of new configuration values and sources.
Fail fast
Wherever the library finds something unexpected it throws an exception with a clear error message
.