Feliz VS Sutil

NOTE: You can try this with the Feliz codebase, which is larger and has multiple .fsproj files. But as you will find out, the project structure is laid out just like we've seen here.

Feliz to create react apps, the most mature option.

The Feliz DSL https://zaid-ajaj.github.io/Feliz/ looks fairly similar to Reagent or there's Fable.Lit https://fable.io/Fable.Lit/ which is more like jsx in that you write the html directly, adding active components via interpolated string mechanisms. There is a VS Code add in that gives you html+css syntax highlighting and auto complete inside your F# files.

Feliz is a DSL for React, and paired with Vite give a hot reload experience that's close to the same as JS/TS, even the React dev tools work fine. Nobody has a ready to go package/template up right now but there's little stopping you from creating a NextJS app.

It means it's similar to the Feliz DSL used to build React web apps: https://zaid-ajaj.github.io/Feliz/

Feliz

I'm curious to see how this goes, F# seems to excel at these type of DSL's (e.g. Feliz, a react DSL is a joy), a big part thanks to type inference and list comprehensions which are a game changer for that pesky conditional rendering.

if you've ever used Feliz or Avalonia.FuncUI then this DSL will make you feel at home, it's less verbose than the original DSL and gives you basically the same benefits, in the case of Fun.Blazor is slightly less performant but it is a viable alternative

Along with Fable highly recommend a look at Feliz. A joy to work with and its ViewEngine can also be separately used w/ Giraffe if you enjoy the syntax:

https://zaid-ajaj.github.io/Feliz/

https://github.com/Zaid-Ajaj/Feliz

Sutil 0 dependency components inspired by svelte.

Sutil

If you don't mind using F# instead of C# then sutil might do what you need. It was inspired by Svelte.

For those interested in Svetle, Sutil is another thing to check out. Top of my head I can’t remember if it is based on or just inspired by Feliz.

https://github.com/davedawkins/Sutil

While I've talked about sutil in the past I was slightly wrong saying that sutil was using Svelte under the hood, it turns out that Sutil is actually a pure F# implementation of a web framework! That means that yes! there's no VDOM, there's no dependency other than the FSharp.Core* library.

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With tools like: Avalonia.FuncUI, Feliz, Xamarin.Forms, Sutil you can create desktop or mobile or web UI's using a really really good and easy to learn programming language. I, personally, see no reason to at least try it out!