I’ve recently seen an increase in the number of those interested in F# programming for web development. I don’t think this is a recent phenomenon; I just haven’t had the privilege of running into many of them previously. Nevertheless, we have decided to band together to provide a set of useful, well-designed libraries for web […]

The WebSharper project has been making significant strides of late in the realm of building composable and reactive user interfaces, especially for the purpose of building SPA-style applications. You can find documentation and demos for WebSharper.UI.Next on its new site hosted on GitHub. Team members have also been blogging about how to build UIs with […]

I recently presented to the Houston Functional Programmers meetup on the topic of using F# for web development. This is an update to my talks with a similar title based on my experience building a real application for Tachyus. I cover data access using the FSharp.Data.SqlClient and building web APIs using ASP.NET Web API with […]

If you’ve ever tried to create an HttpMessageHandler in F#, you’ll have been bitten by the problem of not being able to call base.SendAsync from a callback. The solution is actually quite simple. Just wrap the HttpMessageHandler and expose the protected SendAsync method as a public or internal member: Now, you can call CallableSendAsync in […]

OWIN v1.0 is now over a year old, and Microsoft is shipping its Katana implementation as part of its Visual Studio 2013 ASP.NET project templates. I think this a tremendous victory for both Microsoft and its community around open source efforts. Congratulations to all involved! As with all such victories, however, there are a few items […]