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by FrustratedMonky 1046 days ago
ah. yeah, if you are doing web programming. then for F#, you would use a library that is really like a DSL for the web. One of the things in practice in F#, it seems the most useful libraries are written as DSL's, so it is like a language extension for doing 'whatever'. To really get these web based ones, need to understand "ELM architecture".

In any case. I get it. If you have done ASP.NET, and C#, then suddenly this F# way of building web pages by programming through combining functions, it is hard to get over the hump. Like brain has to re-change how to think through the whole flow. Really, F# on the web is like ELM.

I like https://websharper.com/

but other use this https://suave.io/
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WorldMaker 1046 days ago
Giraffe is another interesting one to explore: https://giraffe.wiki/

Giraffe is nice because it is itself built "just" as ASP.NET Core Middleware so it plays a bit more nicely than Suave with a mixed stack of C#-defined Middleware.

It's more likely you accidentally fall back into just translating C# patterns to non-idiomatic F# with Giraffe, but it's also nicer when in that case of needing to live in both worlds and use a mixture of libraries built for C# ASP.NET projects.

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