As a former competitor in Texas’ UIL Computer Science competition, I thought I would check in and see how it had evolved. I have a desire to, at some point, try to spend some volunteer time at a local high school working with Computer Science students, and I thought this might give me a view […]

Pta.Build.WebEssentialsBundleTask A few months ago, the Tachyus web application used a C# + F# web application approach to separate the front-end HTML, CSS, and JavaScript from the back-end F# ASP.NET Web API application. With this configuration, we introduced Web Essentials to bundle and minify our CSS and JavaScript at build time within Visual Studio. To […]

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 […]