Suave is a simple web development F# library providing a lightweight web server and a set of combinators to manipulate route flow and task composition.
The non-blocking I/O model is efficient and suitable for building fast, scalable network applications. In fact, Suave is written in a completely non-blocking fashion throughout.
Suave is free and open source software.
Key Features
- HTTPS support.
- Websocket support.
- Multiple TCP/IP bindings.
- Basic Access Authentication.
- Keep-Alive.
- HTTP compression.
- Routing takes place using a single function, itself composed from many smaller functions.
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: suave.io
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Ademar Gonzalez, Henrik Feldt and contributors
License: Apache License, Version 2.0
Suave is written in F#. Learn F# with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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| Freya | Modern functional stack for web programming |
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