Falco is a toolkit for building secure, fast, functional-first and fault-tolerant web applications using F#.
The toolkit aims to be very small, easy to learn, extensible, and provide a toolset to build a working end-to-end web application.
Falco is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Asynchronous request handling.
- Simple and powerful routing API.
- Fast, secure and configurable web server.
- Native F# view engine.
- Uniform API for model binding.
- Authentication and security utilities.
- Built-in support for large uploads.
- Extensible – seamlessly integrates with existing libraries.
Website: www.falcoframework.com
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Pim Brouwers
License: Apache License 2.0
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