Desenvolvimento de uma aplicação web com linguagens funcionais puras

Abstract

This work presents the development of a game, called “The Pawn Game”, in Web format, fully developed in pure functional languages. For its implementation, several technologies were used, in order to put their effectiveness to the test. For the creation of the “Front-End” the functional language Elm was used and for the “Back-End”, the Haskell language, also belonging to the group of functional languages. The “Back-End” encompasses the server and an artificial intelligence designed to perform movements for one of the game’s players. For the server, it was necessary to define all the routes and requests it can accepts, using a Haskell framework called Servant. The artificial intelligence was implemented to perform the white player’s moves, using the minimax algorithm.