F# Weekly #36, 2018 – Fabulous & Voting for 2018 Community for F# Heroes

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Introduction to Azure Durable Functions
• Numbers in Fable
• WebSharper 4.5 released
• WebSharper.React: new and improved!

https://twitter.com/c4fsharp/status/1036995794690342914

Videos

• BDD in a Functional World | CukenFest London | Chris Roff
• YOW! 2017 Ken Scambler – Adopting FP: A Human-First Approach
• Making mobile apps simple with F# – Don Syme
• Do you even type, Bro? – Youenn Bouglouan

Blogs

• F# Microservice Patterns @ Jet.com – James Novino
• Property-Based Security Testing in F# — bringing developers and security closer to each other – Stijn Moreels
• Outside-in TDD with F# – Erik Sacré

F# vNext

• FSharp. Compiler. Tools for F# 4. 5
• New ideas:
  • Code Quotations to fail during compilation or to support unmanaged pointers, not to fail during runtime

Open source projects

• fsprojects/Fabulous – F# Functional App Development – Elmish for Xamarin.Forms
• jimbobbennett/Awesome-Fabulous – A hand-curated list of awesome resources when using Fabulous
• Tarmil/awesome-websharper – Awesome links for WebSharper
• dburriss/Fucturizr -A DSL for working with Structurizr
• 17cupsofcoffee/AkkaMUD – Building a MUD in F# and Akka.NET
• Zaid-Ajaj/ElmCounterWPF – Pure F#/Xaml counter using Elmish.WPF and XAML type provider
• TimLariviere/ElmishPlanets – F# / Elmish.XamarinForms / UrhoSharp
• TheAngryByrd/dotnet-mono – dotnet utility to run .net full apps using mono on OSX/Linux

New Releases

• FSharp. Compiler. Tools 10.2.1 (for F# 4. 5)
• Expecto v8.3.0
• Fable 2.0.0-beta-003
• MiniScaffold 0.11.0 is out with FAKE 5 support
• Marten.FSharp 0.4.2

That’s all for now. Have a great week.

Previous F# Weekly edition – #35, 2018