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Mastering F#

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

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2016

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781784393434

Length 264 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

F#

Concepts

Programming Language

Authors (2):

García-Caro Núñez

Fahad

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Mastering F#

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Preface

1. Getting Started in F# FREE CHAPTER

2. Functional Core with F#

3. Data Structures in F#

4. Imperative Programming in F#

5. Asynchronous Programming

6. Type Providers

7. Web Programming in F#

8. Application Development in F#

9. Testing in F#

10. Distributed Programming in F#

Chapter 8. Application Development in F#

One of the most recurrent sentences of the F# advocates is that F# is not only for data science. However, until recently it was difficult to write a full application, including the graphical user interface (GUI), using only F#. Besides being restricted to Windows platforms, F# support has been lagging behind C# for many years. As we will soon see, this situation has happily changed thanks to Fable and GitHub Electron, which allows us to easily create cross-platform apps entirely written in F#. Moreover, Xamarin also has a long story of F# support for mobile apps in Android and iOS.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

What is the GitHub Electron project, and how can we use it to write cross-platform desktop applications, such as OS X, Linux, and Windows, reusing our web technology's knowledge?
Microsoft has stated it will support the development of Universal Windows Platform applications in F#. However, this is still not complete at the...

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Authors (2)

García-Caro Núñez

García-Caro Núñez

Alfonso Garca-Caro Nez is a linguist who, in recent years, changed the study of natural languages by the practice of their programming counterparts. He currently focuses on JavaScript and .NET development and has worked on developing mobile, web, and desktop applications for several industries, such as video games, education, green energy, or digital performances. He is also an international speaker who has presented at several conferences around the globe. His admiration for both the thriving JavaScript ecosystem and functional programming with F# made him look for a way to bring together both worlds, leading to the creation of Fable, an F# to JavaScript compiler that is attracting lot of attention from the community, and integrates the power and elegance of F# with the hundreds of JavaScript tools and libraries available.

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Fahad

Fahad

Suhaib Fahad is an entrepreneur and is running a startup; he is also an expert F# programmer and enthusiast, using F# in various domains within the products that he is building. He is extremely passionate about developing in functional languages and loves to engage with developers of different communities. He has also been researching and working with cloud scale applications since 2012. Fahad lives in Bangalore, the IT hub of India, with his wife and baby boy.

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