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Mastering F#

You're reading from   Mastering F# A comprehensive and in-depth guide to writing functional programs using F#

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
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ISBN-13 9781784393434
Length 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Suhaib Fahad Suhaib Fahad
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Alfonso García-Caro Núñez Alfonso García-Caro Núñez
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Suave


While ASP.NET Web API is very convenient, you can see it is mainly designed for an object-oriented programming (OOP) language as we will map our HTTP routes and verb using classes and methods. This makes it a bit more difficult to create reusable components using simple functions as it is common in F#.

Suave (https://suave.io) is a web server that is very popular within the F# community and is specifically designed to take full advantage of the F# features. Suave is a lightweight, non-blocking web server. The non-blocking I/O model is efficient and suitable to build fast and scalable network applications.

The following is a brief list of advantages of using Suave:

  • It is asynchronous by default
  • Its routes are built using composable functions
  • It includes common tools for web development--HTTPS, authentication, keep-alive, and compression
  • It is cross-platform, which means it works on Linux, OS X, and Windows
  • It can be embedded in other applications
  • It can be used from an F# script

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