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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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In this chapter, you learned how to create cross-platform desktop applications in F# using Fable and GitHub Electron. Moreover, you can recycle your knowledge of web technologies when building applications with Electron, making it much easier to share code between different versions of your app.

Although we could not cover them here, there are also many more possibilities to write applications in F#. With Fable, it is also possible to use React Native to create mobile apps that use native components, and using the open source Xamarin tools, you can write a single code base that has access to the full .NET framework and compiles to native code both on iOS and Android. And obviously, it is possible to create desktop applications for Windows using the well-known Windows.Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) framework, with support for native universal apps that can run on multiple Windows platforms coming soon, such as Windows 10, Xbox, and so on.

In the next chapter, you will...

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