F# web programming options for .NET Core

F# web programming options for .NET Core

• 1.
  F# WEB PROGRAMMINGOPTIONS FOR .NET CORE  ASP.NET Core MVC  Giraffe  Saturn  Suave  Freya
• 2.
  ASP.NET CORE MVC In the box (SDK and Visual Studio 2017)  Object Oriented programming  Wire up the API like you would in C# but connect it to a functional F# core  Best to start with if you’re coming from a C#/ASP.NET MVC background
• 3.
  GIRAFFE  Functional ASP.NETCore  Lightweight – it’s a library, not a framework  Use Kleisli composition to define API routes  Recommended if you have functional programming experience
• 4.
  SATURN  “Batteries included”functional ASP.NET Core  Built atop Giraffe  Comes with database migrations  Modeled after Phoenix web framework in Elixir ecosystem  Uses Computation Expressions to model everything  Recommended for people looking for opinionated functional programming
• 5.
  SUAVE  Lightweight functionalweb server and HTTP abstractions  Can be hosted atop Kestrel  Predecessor to Giraffe and pioneered the APR routing syntax  Designed also to embed its web server into applications  Recommended for people looking for an alternative to ASP.NET
• 6.
  FREYA  Purely functionalF# web framework  Pure as in functional purity!  Uses its own HTTP abstractions  Uses Computation Expressions and Lenses to model an HTTP pipeline  Recommended for experienced functional programmers