F# Weekly #44, 2018 – Fable Community Heroes and #FableConf / @RemmidemmiConf videos

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Congratulations to Fable Community Heroes 2018!
• SAFE template reached 10K downloads on NuGet
• The future of JSON in .NET Core 3.0
• A first look at changes coming in ASP.NET Core 3.0

FableConf / RemmidemmiConf

• User friendly apps start with dev friendly tools – Maxime Mangel (slides)
• Future of web development with F# – Krzysztof Cieślak
• Data visualization with Fable – Evelina Gabasova (slides)
• Build a game with Fable in 45 minutes – Tomasz Heimowski
• Azure Functions, Microsoft’s Glue in Serverless Architectures – Jan Fellien
• Offline Progressive Web Apps with PouchDB – François Nicaise
• Event Sourcing with Azure Cosmos DB – Roman Provazník
• React performance in a Fable world – Julien Roncaglia
• Azure Functions Deep Dive – Sia
• Becoming a full stack developer, a quest into the unknown – Gien Verschatse (slides)
• Domain Driven UI with SAFE Stack – Roman Sachse
• Scaling Elmish Applications – Zaid Ajaj
• La Chanson de FableConf

Videos & Slides

• Two ways to include parameters in url using Suave.IO – Toni Lucca
• Building a Compiler with Immo Landwerth:
  • Episode 5: Line numbers and clean-up
• Akka + F# = Akkling. .NET Fest 2018 – Vagif Abilov (RU)
• One year of using F# in production at SBTech. .NET Fest 2018 – Антон Молдован. (RU)
• Scaling CAP theorem for modern distributed systems. .NET Fest 2018 – Антон Молдован (RU)

Blogs

• A Contract Pattern for Schemaless DataStores – Eirik Tsarpalis
• F# Stanford NLP is running – Tao Liu
• Partial Application in F# – Gareth Hubball
• A Story Of Reliable Code – Artyom G
• Machine Learning Monday – Kunjan Dalal
• Safe Stack in Dokku – Kunjan Dalal
• How to F# with Devon Burriss
  • Part 6: Handling data that is not there
  • Part 7: Working with collections
  • Part 8: Handling Errors Elegantly

F# vNext

• WIP: F# interactive with package management that runs on .NET Core.
• New language suggestions:
  • Add data frame/data table structure and associated module-capabilities (similar to Deedle) to the core data structures.

Open source projects

• Dzoukr/CosmoStore – F# Event store for Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Table Storage
• dbrattli/Fable.Reaction –  Fable.Reaction, Reactive (Rx) Elmish for F# and Fable
• tpetricek/elmish-spreadsheet – Excel 365 in 100ish lines of F#
• DevLyon/mixter – CQRS and Event Sourcing Koans
• ArthurFSharp/ElmishWPFCognitiveServices – UWP / WPF Image recognition app written in F# and Fabulous and C# since we can’t access Universal Windows API in F#.

New Releases

• Fake.Core.Target  5.9.2
• WebSharper 4.5.5
• Paket 5.182.1 with full .net core support
• FSharp. TypeProviders. Templates 5.2.0
• BenchmarkDotNet v0.11.2

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #43, 2018