Smaller Ema apps can be composed together to create a larger Ema app.
The composition happens via sub-route composition. i.e., the Route type of your larger Ema app can contain the sub-route type in its sum constructors. If the sub-routes have IsRoute and EmaSite instances, then the corresponding instances for the larger route can be defined in terms of them.
For example, consider the note-publishing app Emanote, which is written in Ema. If you are creating your own personal website in Ema, and wish to include the Emanote generated site in a sub-path, say /notes/, you can do that by composing the Emanote app within your own Ema app.
Examples
See Ex04_Multi.hs in the Ema source tree for an example of this based on a top-level route ADT. The Ex05_MultiRoute.hs example is similar but uses a heterogenous list (NS from sop-core), that is used in Generic deriving, instead of defining a new route ADT. The former has the main advantage of being able to use inner apps’ models in defining the behaviour of other routes.
Builtin sub-apps
Ema provides a few “sub apps” that are useful in developing static sites.
StaticRoute
Ema.Route.Lib.Extra.StaticRoute provides a StaticRoute site that can monitor a directory and allow referring to the files in it. The Model type for this sub-route keeps track of last-added time, which gets appended to the URL when running in Live Server, which in turn has the effect of “refreshing” the target content (eg: image) when the underlying files change.
An example of its use can be seen here: https://github.com/EmaApps/ema-template
PandocRoute
Ema.Route.Lib.Extra.PandocRoute provides a PandocRoute site that can monitor a directory of LML files (Markdown, org-mode, etc.) and return (in siteOutput of EmaSite) the parsed Pandoc AST along with a function that renders it to HTML.
An example of its use can be seen here: https://github.com/fpindia/fpindia-site/pull/21