WebSharper is a web-programming framework that allows web developers to create and maintain complex JavaScript and HTML5 front-end applications in the F# programming language.
WebSharper includes support for jQuery, HTML5, DOM and EcmaScript.
This is open source and commercial software.
Key Features
- Functional, reactive applications with WebSharper.UI – bind composite data models to your reactive user interfaces.
- Functional, composable web server:
- Safe HTML templating – serve HTML content from template files, with strongly typed access to fill in holes..
- Compose HTML – generate HTML from C#/F# with a clean syntax.
- Inlined client mode – have event handlers and client-generated content in C#/F# right inside your server-side code, auto-translated to JavaScript.
- Declarative routing -parse requests and write links using C#/F# types automatically.
- Customizable JSON format – parse and generate JSON based on the shape and attributes of your data type.
- Generate static sites – output HTML+JS into a folder, all set up to work without WebSharper’s server runtime.
- JavaScript compiler and utilities
- Seamless client-server interaction
Website: websharper.com
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Intellifactory
License: Apache License 2.0
WebSharper is written in F#. Learn F# with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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|---|---|
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| Saturn | Implements the server-side, functional MVC pattern |
| Suave | Simple web development F# library |
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| 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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