Getting started with Snap

In this recipe, we will install Snap and create our first Snap application. The Snap Framework is not (yet) part of the official list of packages on Stackage. Hence, to get started with Snap, we will have to build the Snap Framework ourselves. 

How to do it...

1. Open a console, change the directory to the desired location, and clone the snap-templates framework, as follows:

        git clone https://github.com/snapframework/snap-templates.git

2. The snap-templates package does not have a stack.yaml file generated. Generate a new one.

        stack --resolver lts-9.1 init --solver --ignore-subdirs

At the moment, lts-9.1 is the latest LTS available with stack. We also need to ignore the subdirectories, as otherwise, stack will include all the subdirectories and cabal files in the stack project file.

3. Build and install the project using the following commands:

      stack build 
      stack install

4. The snap executable will be installed in the local bin folder. On Unix systems, this...