27.5 Racket packages for web devel

Is Racket ready for the web? Here are several Racket packages that may be useful as you hack the web with a Lisp from the future. The list is surely incomplete; omissions should be attributed to ignorance, not malice. If you know of a package that should be added, please let me know.

Acknowledgments Thanks to Greg Hendershott for suggesting a few of these entries.

Generating XML, HTML and CSS

xml XML à la Lisp. Defines X-expressions AKA xexprs
txexpr Convenience functions for X-expressions
css-expr CSS, the Lisp way (S-expressions)
html-parsing Parse HTML
html-writing Serialize HTML
sxml XML in the form of S-expressions

Databases and kin

db Connecting to popular relational databases (Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, etc.)
sql SQL as S-expressions
racquel Racket-style Object-relational mapping
rackdis Redis client
mongodb A MongoDB client
memcached Using memcached in your Racket programs

HTTP

http An HTTP client
cookies Processing cookies
rfc6455 Handling Web Sockets
scgi (Simple) Common Gateway Interface (SCGI/CGI)
RacketMQ W3C WebSub Hub

JSON

json JSON parsing and serializing
net-jwt JSON Web Token and JSON Web Signature (RFC 7519 and RFC 7515)
argo JSON Schema validation

JavaScript

(Unfortunately, whalesong is dead.)

System and infrastructure

aws Connecting with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
dotenv Extend the environment by loading files
reloadable Load code dynamically

Cryptography and random numbers

bcrypt Racket Interface with bcrypt
libuuid Generate UUIDs