I am joining Tachyus F# team starting next week, and moving to San Mateo, CA. I am both excited and a little sad. During my time at IntelliFactory I learned pretty much all the skills I now have as a programmer. I met, worked with and learned from amazing hackers. It is time for me to move on, but IntelliFactory will always be a very special memory for me, and Budapest a special place. Thanks Adam Granicz, Diego Echeverri, Joel Bjornson, Loic Denuziere, Andras Janko, and many others for an amazing tim[...]

WebSharper.UI.Next provides a powerful declarative animation system. This mini-blog shows how to integrate this with single-page sites and flowlets.

UI.Next is available for experimentation as a public WebSharper.UI.Next NuGet package. You can build examples from source - just get WebSharper first. UI.Next addresses most shortcomings we felt WebSharper had for single-page JavaScript applications. The most interesting part is a dataflow model integrated with DOM for defining reactive UI, but we also provide support for client-side routing and animation. If you play with it, Simon and I will be very interested in your feedback.  Next week we plan to do[...]

For about a year or so, I have made Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) taboo. I cringed at every mention of it. I think this was a mental self-defense reaction, my extended immune system was sending me a signal that I spent too much time thinking about this subject without any tangible results. The fatal attraction of FRP is its simplicity. Semantics are beautiful and clear. There are Behaviors, functions of time, Events, timed occurrences, and they all dance together. You write causal transformations[...]

In this post, we see how WebSharper.UI.Next may be used to structure single-page applications with multiple sub-pages, and how this can be integrated with URL synchronisation.