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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+# Webby
+
+An easy to use Haskell web-server inspired by Scotty.
+
+# Build
+
+Clone the repo and run `stack build`
+
+# Example
+
+``` haskell
+module Main where
+
+import qualified Data.Text                as T
+import qualified Network.Wai.Handler.Warp as W
+import           UnliftIO                 (liftIO)
+import qualified UnliftIO.Exception       as E
+
+import           Webby
+
+main :: IO ()
+main = do
+    let routes = [ get "/api/a" (text "a")
+                 , get "/api/b" (text "b")
+                 , post "/api/capture/:id" (do idVal :: Int <- getCapture "id"
+                                               text $ T.pack $ show idVal
+                                           )
+                 , get "/api/showEnv" (do env <- getAppEnv
+                                          json env
+                                      )
+                 , get "/aaah" (liftIO $ E.throwString "oops!")
+                 ]
+
+    webbyApp <- mkWebbyApp (3::Int) routes
+    putStrLn "Starting webserver..."
+    W.runEnv 7000 webbyApp
+```
+
+You can try the example above, by cloning the repo and running the
+example:
+
+``` shell
+$ examples/Basic.hs
+```
+
+In another shell, let's `curl` the server:
+
+``` shell
+$ curl http://localhost:7000/api/a
+a
+$ curl http://localhost:7000/api/b
+b
+$ curl -XPOST http://localhost:7000/api/capture/32
+32
+$ curl http://localhost:7000/api/showEnv
+MyEnv
+$ curl http://localhost:7000/aaah
+Control.Exception.Safe.throwString called with:
+
+oops!
+Called from:
+  throwString (examples/Basic.hs:32:42 in main:Main)
+```
diff --git a/Setup.hs b/Setup.hs
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+import Distribution.Simple
+main = defaultMain
diff --git a/src/Webby.hs b/src/Webby.hs
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+module Webby
+  ( WebbyM
+
+  -- * Routing and handler functions
+  , RoutePattern
+  , Routes
+  , mkRoute
+  , post
+  , get
+  , put
+
+  -- * Captures
+  , Captures
+  , captures
+  , getCapture
+
+  -- * Request parsing
+  , flag
+  , header
+  , headers
+  , jsonData
+  , param
+  , param_
+  , params
+  , request
+  , requestBodyLength
+
+  -- * Response modification
+  , setStatus
+  , addHeader
+  , setHeader
+  , blob
+  , json
+  , text
+  , stream
+
+  -- * Application
+  , mkWebbyApp
+
+  -- * Application context
+  , WEnv
+  , getAppEnv
+  , runAppEnv
+
+  -- * Handler flow control
+  , finish
+
+  -- * Exceptions thrown
+  , WebbyError(..)
+  ) where
+
+import           Webby.Server
+import           Webby.Types
diff --git a/src/Webby/Route.hs b/src/Webby/Route.hs
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+{-# LANGUAGE BangPatterns #-}
+module Webby.Route where
+
+-- This modules contains the data structure and utilities to process
+-- route patterns and lookup request paths internally in Webby.
+
+import qualified Data.HashMap.Strict as H
+
+import           Webby.Types
+import           WebbyPrelude
+
+
+data HashTrie a = HashTrie { handlerMay :: Maybe a
+                           , litSubtree :: H.HashMap Text (HashTrie a)
+                           , capMay     :: Maybe (Text, HashTrie a)
+                           }
+                deriving (Eq, Show)
+
+emptyHashTrie :: HashTrie a
+emptyHashTrie = HashTrie Nothing H.empty Nothing
+
+-- | addItem adds a route to the HashTrie, only if the route does not
+-- already exist, and the route does not have overlapping captures.
+--
+-- An overlapping capture happens when there are two routes with
+-- captures at the same position, for example:
+--   @/person/:name@
+--   @/person/:id@
+--
+-- Note that @/person/:name@ and @/address/:name@ are not overlapping
+-- captures as they have different leading components.
+addItem :: ([PathSegment], a) -> HashTrie a -> Maybe (HashTrie a)
+addItem ([], !handler) !trie =
+    -- If there are no path segments remaining, set handler at the
+    -- current node of the HashTrie
+    case handlerMay trie of
+      Nothing -> Just $ trie { handlerMay = Just handler }
+      Just _  -> Nothing
+addItem (b:bs, !handler) !trie =
+    case b of
+      -- For a literal path segment, lookup and insert in the
+      -- litSubtree.
+      Literal p ->
+          let ltrie = litSubtree trie
+              child = H.lookupDefault emptyHashTrie p ltrie
+          in do nchild <- addItem (bs, handler) child
+                let nltrie = H.insert p nchild ltrie
+                return $ trie { litSubtree = nltrie }
+
+      -- For a capture path segment, insert into the capture child of
+      -- the current node (if it doesn't exist).
+      Capture p ->
+          case capMay trie of
+            Nothing -> do ntrie <- addItem (bs, handler) emptyHashTrie
+                          return $ trie { capMay = Just (p, ntrie) }
+            Just _ -> Nothing
+
+-- | lookupItem lookup the path segments in the tree and returns a
+-- handler if a match is found along with a map of captures found.
+lookupItem :: [Text] -> HashTrie a
+           -> Maybe (Captures, a)
+lookupItem !bs' !trie' = lookupItemWithCaptures bs' trie' H.empty
+  where
+    lookupItemWithCaptures [] !trie !h = do hdlr <- handlerMay trie
+                                            return (h, hdlr)
+    lookupItemWithCaptures (b:bs) !trie !h =
+        let litChildMay = H.lookup b $ litSubtree trie
+            captureLookup = do (capKey, childTrie) <- capMay trie
+                               lookupItemWithCaptures bs childTrie $
+                                   H.insert capKey b h
+        in -- At lookup we always prefer a literal match over a
+           -- capture if both are present at node.
+          maybe captureLookup
+          (\childTrie -> lookupItemWithCaptures bs childTrie h)
+          litChildMay
+
+routePattern2PathSegments :: RoutePattern -> [PathSegment]
+routePattern2PathSegments (RoutePattern mthd ps) =
+    (Literal $ decodeUtf8Lenient mthd) : ps
+
+mkRoutesHashTrie :: Routes a -> Maybe (HashTrie (WebbyM a ()))
+mkRoutesHashTrie rs = foldl combine (Just emptyHashTrie) rs
+  where
+
+    combine Nothing _ = Nothing
+    combine (Just h) (rpat, handler) =
+        let pathSegments = routePattern2PathSegments rpat
+        in addItem (pathSegments, handler) h
diff --git a/src/Webby/Server.hs b/src/Webby/Server.hs
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+module Webby.Server where
+
+
+import qualified Control.Monad.Logger       as Log
+import qualified Data.Aeson                 as A
+import qualified Data.Binary.Builder        as Bu
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy       as LB
+import qualified Data.HashMap.Strict        as H
+import qualified Data.List                  as L
+import qualified Data.Text                  as T
+import           Network.HTTP.Types.URI     (queryToQueryText)
+import qualified System.Log.FastLogger      as FLog
+import           System.Log.FastLogger.Date (newTimeCache)
+import qualified UnliftIO.Concurrent        as Conc
+import qualified UnliftIO.Exception         as E
+import           Web.HttpApiData
+
+import           WebbyPrelude
+
+import           Webby.Route
+import           Webby.Types
+
+-- | Retrieve the app environment given to the application at
+-- initialization.
+getAppEnv :: WebbyM appEnv appEnv
+getAppEnv = asks weAppEnv
+
+runAppEnv :: ReaderT appEnv (WebbyM appEnv) a -> WebbyM appEnv a
+runAppEnv appFn = do
+    env <- getAppEnv
+    runReaderT appFn env
+
+-- | Retrieve all path captures
+captures :: WebbyM appEnv Captures
+captures = asks weCaptures
+
+-- | Retrieve a particular capture (TODO: extend?)
+getCapture :: (FromHttpApiData a) => Text -> WebbyM appEnv a
+getCapture capName = do
+    cs <- captures
+    case H.lookup capName cs of
+        Nothing  -> throwIO $ WebbyMissingCapture capName
+        Just cap -> either (throwIO . WebbyParamParseError capName . show)
+                    return $
+                    parseUrlPiece cap
+
+setStatus :: Status -> WebbyM appEnv ()
+setStatus sts = do
+    wVar <- asks weResp
+    Conc.modifyMVar_ wVar $ \wr -> return $ wr { wrStatus = sts}
+
+addHeader :: Header -> WebbyM appEnv ()
+addHeader h = do
+    wVar <- asks weResp
+    Conc.modifyMVar_ wVar $
+        \wr -> do let hs = wrHeaders wr
+                  return $ wr { wrHeaders = hs ++ [h] }
+
+-- similar to addHeader but replaces a header
+setHeader :: Header -> WebbyM appEnv ()
+setHeader (k, v) = do
+    wVar <- asks weResp
+    Conc.modifyMVar_ wVar $
+        \wr -> do let hs = wrHeaders wr
+                      ohs = filter ((/= k) . fst) hs
+                  return $ wr { wrHeaders = ohs ++ [(k, v)] }
+
+resp400 :: Text -> WebbyM appEnv a
+resp400 msg = do
+    setStatus status400
+    json $ A.object [ "error" A..= A.String msg ]
+    finish
+
+params :: WebbyM appEnv [(Text, Text)]
+params = do
+    qparams <- (queryToQueryText . queryString) <$> request
+    return $ fmap (\(q, mv) -> (,) q $ fromMaybe "" mv) qparams
+
+flag :: Text -> WebbyM appEnv Bool
+flag name = (isJust . L.lookup name) <$> params
+
+param :: (FromHttpApiData a) => Text -> WebbyM appEnv (Maybe a)
+param p = do ps <- params
+             case L.lookup p ps of
+                 Nothing -> return Nothing
+                 Just myParam -> either (throwIO . WebbyParamParseError p . show)
+                                 (return . Just) $
+                                 parseQueryParam myParam
+
+param_ :: (FromHttpApiData a) => Text -> WebbyM appEnv a
+param_ p = do myParam <- param p
+              maybe (resp400 $ T.concat [p, " missing in params"])
+                  return myParam
+
+header :: HeaderName -> WebbyM appEnv (Maybe Text)
+header n = do
+    hs <- requestHeaders <$> request
+    return $ headMay $ map (decodeUtf8Lenient . snd) $ filter ((n == ) . fst) hs
+
+request :: WebbyM appEnv Request
+request = asks weRequest
+
+headers :: WebbyM appEnv [Header]
+headers = requestHeaders <$> request
+
+requestBodyLength :: WebbyM appEnv (Maybe Int64)
+requestBodyLength = do
+    hMay <- header hContentLength
+    return $ do val <- toS <$> hMay
+                parseInt val
+
+finish :: WebbyM appEnv a
+finish = E.throwIO FinishThrown
+
+blob :: ByteString -> WebbyM appEnv ()
+blob bs = do
+    setHeader (hContentType, "application/octet-stream")
+    wVar <- asks weResp
+    Conc.modifyMVar_ wVar $
+        \wr -> return $ wr { wrRespData = Right $ Bu.fromByteString bs }
+
+text :: Text -> WebbyM appEnv ()
+text txt = do
+    setHeader (hContentType, "text/plain; charset=utf-8")
+    wVar <- asks weResp
+    Conc.modifyMVar_ wVar $
+        \wr -> return $ wr { wrRespData = Right $ Bu.fromByteString $
+                                          encodeUtf8 txt }
+
+jsonData :: A.FromJSON a => WebbyM appEnv a
+jsonData = do
+   req <- request
+   body <- liftIO $ lazyRequestBody req
+   either (throwIO . WebbyJSONParseError . T.pack) return $ A.eitherDecode body
+
+json :: A.ToJSON b => b -> WebbyM appEnv ()
+json j = do
+    setHeader (hContentType, "application/json; charset=utf-8")
+    wVar <- asks weResp
+    Conc.modifyMVar_ wVar $
+        \wr -> return $ wr { wrRespData = Right $ Bu.fromLazyByteString $
+                                          A.encode j }
+
+stream :: StreamingBody -> WebbyM appEnv ()
+stream s = do
+    wVar <- asks weResp
+    Conc.modifyMVar_ wVar $
+        \wr -> return $ wr { wrRespData = Left s }
+
+-- | matchRequest uses a looks up a data structure built from the
+-- configured routes.
+matchRequest :: Request -> HashTrie a -> Maybe (Captures, a)
+matchRequest req trie =
+    let mthd = requestMethod req
+        path = pathInfo req
+        lookupPath = decodeUtf8Lenient mthd : path
+    in lookupItem lookupPath trie
+
+errorResponse404 :: WebbyM appEnv ()
+errorResponse404 = setStatus status404
+
+invalidRoutesErr :: [Char]
+invalidRoutesErr = "Invalid route specification: contains duplicate routes or routes with overlapping capture patterns."
+
+-- | Use this function, to create a WAI application. It takes a
+-- user/application defined `appEnv` data type and a list of
+-- routes. If none of the requests match a request, a default 404
+-- response is returned.
+mkWebbyApp :: appEnv -> Routes appEnv -> IO Application
+mkWebbyApp appEnv routes = do
+    lset <- FLog.newStdoutLoggerSet FLog.defaultBufSize
+    routeTrie <- maybe (E.throwString invalidRoutesErr) return $
+                 mkRoutesHashTrie routes
+    return $ mkApp lset routeTrie
+
+  where
+
+    mkApp lset trie req respond = do
+        let defaultHandler = errorResponse404
+            (cs, handler) = fromMaybe (H.empty, defaultHandler) $
+                            matchRequest req trie
+
+        timeFn <- newTimeCache "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S "
+        wEnv <- do v <- Conc.newMVar defaultWyResp
+                   return $ WEnv v cs req appEnv lset timeFn
+
+        (do runWebbyM wEnv handler
+            webbyReply wEnv respond) `E.catches`
+            [ -- Handles Webby' exceptions while parsing parameters
+              -- and request body
+              E.Handler (\(ex :: WebbyError) -> case ex of
+                            wmc@(WebbyMissingCapture _) ->
+                                respond $ responseLBS status404 [] $
+                                toS $ displayException wmc
+
+                            _ -> respond $ responseLBS status400 [] $
+                                 toS $ displayException ex
+                        )
+
+              -- Handles Webby's finish statement
+            , E.Handler (\(_ :: FinishThrown) -> webbyReply wEnv respond)
+
+              -- Handles any other exception thrown in the handler
+            , E.Handler (\(ex :: E.SomeException) -> do
+                              Log.runStdoutLoggingT $ Log.logInfoN (show ex)
+                              respond $ responseLBS status500 [] (show ex))
+            ]
+
+    webbyReply wEnv respond' = do
+        let wVar = weResp wEnv
+        wr <- Conc.takeMVar wVar
+        case wrRespData wr of
+          Left s  -> respond' $ responseStream (wrStatus wr) (wrHeaders wr) s
+          Right b -> do
+              let clen = LB.length $ Bu.toLazyByteString b
+              respond' $ responseBuilder (wrStatus wr)
+                  (wrHeaders wr ++ [(hContentLength, show clen)]) b
+
+
+text2PathSegments :: Text -> [PathSegment]
+text2PathSegments path =
+    let toSegment s = maybe (Literal s) Capture $
+                      ":" `T.stripPrefix` s
+
+        path' = maybe path identity $ T.stripPrefix "/" path
+
+    in map toSegment $ bool (T.splitOn "/" path') [] $ path' == ""
+
+-- | Create a route for a user-provided HTTP request method, pattern
+-- and handler function.
+mkRoute :: Method -> Text -> WebbyM appEnv ()
+        -> (RoutePattern, WebbyM appEnv ())
+mkRoute m p h = (RoutePattern m (text2PathSegments p), h)
+
+-- | Create a route for a POST request method, given the path pattern
+-- and handler.
+post :: Text -> WebbyM appEnv () -> (RoutePattern, WebbyM appEnv ())
+post = mkRoute methodPost
+
+-- | Create a route for a GET request method, given the path pattern
+-- and handler.
+get :: Text -> WebbyM appEnv () -> (RoutePattern, WebbyM appEnv ())
+get = mkRoute methodGet
+
+-- | Create a route for a PUT request method, given the path pattern
+-- and handler.
+put :: Text -> WebbyM appEnv () -> (RoutePattern, WebbyM appEnv ())
+put = mkRoute methodPut
diff --git a/src/Webby/Types.hs b/src/Webby/Types.hs
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+{-# LANGUAGE GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving #-}
+module Webby.Types where
+
+import qualified Control.Monad.Logger  as Log
+import qualified Data.Binary.Builder   as Bu
+import qualified Data.HashMap.Strict   as H
+import qualified Data.Text             as T
+import           System.Log.FastLogger (FormattedTime)
+import qualified System.Log.FastLogger as FLog
+import qualified UnliftIO              as U
+import qualified UnliftIO.Concurrent   as Conc
+
+import           WebbyPrelude
+
+-- | A data type to represent parts of the response constructed in the
+-- handler when servicing a request.
+data WyResp = WyResp { wrStatus    :: Status
+                     , wrHeaders   :: ResponseHeaders
+                     , wrRespData  :: Either StreamingBody Bu.Builder
+                     , wrResponded :: Bool
+                     }
+
+defaultWyResp :: WyResp
+defaultWyResp = WyResp status200 [] (Right Bu.empty) False
+
+-- | The reader environment used by the web framework. It is
+-- parameterized by the application's environment data type.
+data WEnv appEnv = WEnv { weResp      :: Conc.MVar WyResp
+                        , weCaptures  :: Captures
+                        , weRequest   :: Request
+                        , weAppEnv    :: appEnv
+                        , weLoggerSet :: FLog.LoggerSet
+                        , weLogTime   :: IO FormattedTime
+                        }
+
+-- | The main monad transformer stack used in the web-framework.
+--
+-- The type of a handler for a request is `WebbyM appEnv ()`. The
+-- `appEnv` parameter is used by the web application to store an
+-- (read-only) environment. For e.g. it can be used to store a
+-- database connection pool.
+newtype WebbyM appEnv a = WebbyM
+    { unWebbyM :: ReaderT (WEnv appEnv) (ResourceT IO) a
+    }
+    deriving (Functor, Applicative, Monad, MonadIO, MonadReader (WEnv appEnv))
+
+instance U.MonadUnliftIO (WebbyM appData) where
+    askUnliftIO = WebbyM $ ReaderT $
+                  \(w :: WEnv appData) -> U.withUnliftIO $
+                  \u -> return $
+                  U.UnliftIO (U.unliftIO u . flip runReaderT w . unWebbyM)
+
+instance Log.MonadLogger (WebbyM env) where
+    monadLoggerLog loc src lvl msg = do
+        lset <- asks weLoggerSet
+        ltime <- asks weLogTime
+        tstr <- liftIO ltime
+        let logstr = Log.toLogStr tstr <>
+                     (Log.defaultLogStr loc src lvl $ Log.toLogStr msg)
+        liftIO $ FLog.pushLogStr lset logstr
+
+runWebbyM :: WEnv w -> WebbyM w a -> IO a
+runWebbyM env = runResourceT . flip runReaderT env . unWebbyM
+
+-- A route pattern specifies a HTTP method and a list of path segments
+-- that must match.
+data RoutePattern = RoutePattern Method [PathSegment]
+                  deriving (Eq, Show)
+
+-- | The Routes of a web-application are a list of mappings from a
+-- `RoutePattern` to a handler function.
+type Routes appEnv = [(RoutePattern, WebbyM appEnv ())]
+
+-- | Captures are simply extracted path elements in a HashMap
+type Captures = H.HashMap Text Text
+
+data PathSegment = Literal Text
+                 | Capture Text
+                 deriving (Eq, Show)
+
+-- | Internal type used to terminate handler processing by throwing and
+-- catching an exception.
+data FinishThrown = FinishThrown
+                  deriving (Show)
+
+instance U.Exception FinishThrown
+
+-- | Various kinds of errors thrown by this library - these can be
+-- caught by handler code.
+data WebbyError = WebbyJSONParseError Text
+                | WebbyParamParseError { wppeParamName :: Text
+                                       , wppeErrMsg    :: Text
+                                       }
+                | WebbyMissingCapture Text
+                deriving Show
+
+instance U.Exception WebbyError where
+    displayException (WebbyParamParseError pName msg) =
+        T.unpack $ sformat ("Param parse error: " % st % " " % st) pName msg
+
+    displayException (WebbyJSONParseError _) = "Invalid JSON body"
+
+    displayException (WebbyMissingCapture capName) =
+        T.unpack $ sformat (st % " missing") capName
diff --git a/src/WebbyPrelude.hs b/src/WebbyPrelude.hs
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+module WebbyPrelude
+    ( module Exports
+
+    -- | Custom prelude functions
+    , decodeUtf8Lenient
+    , parseInt
+    ) where
+
+import           Control.Monad.Trans.Resource as Exports (ResourceT,
+                                                          liftResourceT,
+                                                          runResourceT)
+import           Network.HTTP.Types           as Exports
+import           Network.Wai                  as Exports
+import           Protolude                    as Exports hiding (get, put, (%))
+
+import           Data.Text.Encoding           as Exports (encodeUtf8)
+
+-- Imports for custom functionality coded in this module.
+import           Data.Text.Encoding           (decodeUtf8With)
+import           Data.Text.Encoding.Error     (lenientDecode)
+import qualified Data.Text.Read               as TR
+
+-- Text formatting
+import           Formatting                   as Exports (format, sformat, (%))
+import           Formatting.ShortFormatters   as Exports (d, sh, st, t)
+
+-- Decode UTF8 leniently (by replacing an invalid input byte with the
+-- Unicode replacement character U+FFFD).
+decodeUtf8Lenient :: ByteString -> Text
+decodeUtf8Lenient = decodeUtf8With lenientDecode
+
+parseInt :: Integral a => Text -> Maybe a
+parseInt t' = hush $ fmap fst $ TR.decimal t'
diff --git a/test/Spec.hs b/test/Spec.hs
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+import           Test.Tasty       (TestTree, defaultMain, testGroup)
+import           Test.Tasty.HUnit ((@?=))
+import qualified Test.Tasty.HUnit as HUnit
+-- import qualified Test.Tasty.QuickCheck as QC
+
+import           Webby.Server
+import           Webby.Types
+import           WebbyPrelude
+
+import           Webby.RouteTest
+
+main :: IO ()
+main = defaultMain tests
+
+tests :: TestTree
+tests = testGroup "Webby Tests" [text2PathSegmentsTest, testHashTrie]
+
+text2PathSegmentsTest :: TestTree
+text2PathSegmentsTest = testGroup "text2PathSegments" [text2PathSegmentsUT]
+  where
+    text2PathSegmentsUT :: TestTree
+    text2PathSegmentsUT = HUnit.testCase "Unit tests" $ do
+        text2PathSegments "" @?= []
+
+        text2PathSegments "/" @?= []
+
+        text2PathSegments "/ab" @?= [Literal "ab"]
+
+        text2PathSegments "ab" @?= [Literal "ab"]
+
+        text2PathSegments "/ab/bc" @?= [Literal "ab", Literal "bc"]
+
+        text2PathSegments ":ab/bc" @?= [Capture "ab", Literal "bc"]
+
+        text2PathSegments "/:ab/bc" @?= [Capture "ab", Literal "bc"]
+
+        text2PathSegments "/ab/:bc/cd" @?= [Literal "ab", Capture "bc", Literal "cd"]
diff --git a/test/Webby/RouteTest.hs b/test/Webby/RouteTest.hs
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+++ b/test/Webby/RouteTest.hs
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+module Webby.RouteTest where
+
+import           Test.Tasty          (TestTree, testGroup)
+import           Test.Tasty.HUnit    ((@?=))
+import qualified Test.Tasty.HUnit    as HUnit
+
+import qualified Data.HashMap.Strict as H
+
+import           Webby.Route
+import           Webby.Types
+import           WebbyPrelude
+
+testHashTrie :: TestTree
+testHashTrie = testGroup "HashTrie tests" [htAddItem, htLookupItem]
+
+htAddItem :: TestTree
+htAddItem = HUnit.testCase "Unit Test - Add Item" $ do
+    let n = 1 :: Int
+        leaf = HashTrie (Just n) H.empty Nothing
+    addItem ([], n) emptyHashTrie @?=
+        Just leaf
+
+    addItem ([Literal "ab"], n) emptyHashTrie @?=
+        Just (HashTrie Nothing (H.fromList [("ab", leaf)]) Nothing)
+
+    let tnode = HashTrie Nothing (H.fromList [("cd", leaf)]) Nothing
+    addItem ([Literal "ab", Literal "cd"], n) emptyHashTrie @?=
+        Just (HashTrie Nothing (H.fromList [("ab", tnode)]) Nothing)
+
+    -- capture test!
+    addItem ([Capture "ab", Literal "cd"], n) emptyHashTrie @?=
+        Just (HashTrie Nothing H.empty (Just ("ab", tnode)))
+
+    -- TODO: capture test with overlapping capture and literal pattern
+
+htLookupItem :: TestTree
+htLookupItem = HUnit.testCase "Unit Test - Lookup Item" $ do
+    lookupItem [] emptyHashTrie @?= (Nothing :: Maybe (Captures, Int))
+
+    let n = 1 :: Int
+        leaf = HashTrie (Just n) H.empty Nothing
+    lookupItem [] leaf @?= Just (H.empty, n)
+
+    let trie1 = HashTrie Nothing (H.fromList [("ab", leaf)]) Nothing
+    lookupItem ["a"] trie1 @?= Nothing
+    lookupItem ["ab"] trie1 @?= Just (H.empty, n)
+
+    -- capture test!
+    let tnode = HashTrie Nothing (H.fromList [("cd", leaf)]) Nothing
+        trie2 = HashTrie Nothing H.empty (Just ("ab", tnode))
+    lookupItem ["abc"] trie2 @?= Nothing
+    lookupItem ["captureValue", "cd"] trie2 @?=
+        Just (H.fromList [("ab", "captureValue")], n)
+
+    -- TODO: capture test with overlapping capture and literal pattern
diff --git a/webby.cabal b/webby.cabal
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+cabal-version: 1.12
+
+-- This file has been generated from package.yaml by hpack version 0.31.1.
+--
+-- see: https://github.com/sol/hpack
+--
+-- hash: 4f81f8a7502f5cce8bbeea48a56ceb91bc52428d3b45594d74a22c035108c56c
+
+name:           webby
+version:        0.1.0.0
+synopsis:       A super-simple web server framework
+description:    A super-simple, easy to use web server framework inspired by
+                Scotty. The goals of the project are: (1) Be easy to use (2) Allow
+                graceful exception handling (3) Parse request parameters easily and
+                in a typed manner.
+category:       Web
+maintainer:     aditya.mmy@gmail.com
+license:        Apache-2.0
+license-file:   LICENSE
+build-type:     Simple
+extra-source-files:
+    README.md
+
+flag dev
+  manual: True
+  default: False
+
+library
+  hs-source-dirs:
+      src
+  default-extensions: FlexibleInstances MultiParamTypeClasses NoImplicitPrelude OverloadedStrings ScopedTypeVariables TupleSections
+  ghc-options: -Wall
+  build-depends:
+      aeson
+    , base >=4.7 && <5
+    , binary
+    , bytestring
+    , fast-logger
+    , formatting
+    , http-api-data
+    , http-types
+    , monad-logger
+    , mtl
+    , protolude
+    , resourcet
+    , text
+    , unliftio
+    , unordered-containers
+    , wai
+    , wai-extra
+    , warp
+  if flag(dev)
+    ghc-options: -Werror
+  exposed-modules:
+      Webby
+  other-modules:
+      Webby.Route
+      Webby.Server
+      Webby.Types
+      WebbyPrelude
+      Paths_webby
+  default-language: Haskell2010
+
+test-suite webby-test
+  type: exitcode-stdio-1.0
+  main-is: Spec.hs
+  other-modules:
+      Webby
+      Webby.Route
+      Webby.Server
+      Webby.Types
+      WebbyPrelude
+      Webby.RouteTest
+      Paths_webby
+  hs-source-dirs:
+      src
+      test
+  default-extensions: FlexibleInstances MultiParamTypeClasses NoImplicitPrelude OverloadedStrings ScopedTypeVariables TupleSections
+  ghc-options: -Wall -threaded -rtsopts -with-rtsopts=-N
+  build-depends:
+      aeson
+    , base >=4.7 && <5
+    , binary
+    , bytestring
+    , fast-logger
+    , formatting
+    , http-api-data
+    , http-types
+    , monad-logger
+    , mtl
+    , protolude
+    , resourcet
+    , tasty
+    , tasty-hunit
+    , tasty-quickcheck
+    , text
+    , unliftio
+    , unordered-containers
+    , wai
+    , wai-extra
+    , warp
+    , webby
+  if flag(dev)
+    ghc-options: -Werror
+  default-language: Haskell2010
