Saturn is a modern web framework that focuses on developer productivity, performance, and maintainability.
Built on top of the battle-tested ASP.NET Core foundation and the highly flexible, extendable model of Giraffe, Saturn provides high level abstractions, helpers and tools to enable high developer productivity, at the same time keeping high application performance provided by Kestrel and Giraffe.
Saturn itself is the top layer of a multi-layer system designed to create a flexible, productive environment for creating web applications.
Saturn is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Modern programming model – combines the well known MVC pattern with the power of FP and F# to make web programming fun and easy.
- High performance – builds on top of highly optimized, and battle tested technologies such as ASP.NET Core, Giraffe and Kestrel.
- Provides set of tools, templates and guides that makes creating and maintaining applications seamlessly.
Website: saturnframework.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Lambda Factory
License: MIT License
Saturn is written in F#. Learn F# with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| F# Web Frameworks | |
|---|---|
| Giraffe | Native functional ASP.NET Core web framework |
| Saturn | Implements the server-side, functional MVC pattern |
| Suave | Simple web development F# library |
| WebSharper | Full-stack, functional reactive web programming |
| Falco | Toolkit for building fast, functional-first and fault-tolerant web applications |
| Bolero | Tools and libraries to run F# applications in WebAssembly |
| Felicity | Idiomatic JSON:API |
| Frank | F# computation expressions |
| Freya | Modern functional stack for web programming |
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