Feliz VS ihp

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

I found IHP straightforward:

https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/

despite not remembering much haskell!

This assumes you can get past nix for the install.

I find IHP well-designed. I just wish the licensing scheme were more transparent.

You can find the docs at https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/ and some getting started videos at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLl9Sjq6Nzc&list=PLenFm8BWuKlS0IaE31DmKB_PbkMLmwWmG

In case this got you interested in Haskell, and you want a good way to start your Haskell journey (and have something to apply the optimization handbook to), check out IHP. It's the Rails/Laravel of the Haskell world. You can start here https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/Guide/index.html or check it out on GitHub here https://github.com/digitallyinduced/ihp

At IHP we've been using Algora for a while now and it works really great. Here's e.g. one PR that was merged last week with a bounty attached https://github.com/digitallyinduced/ihp/issues/1621 Everything was set up in less than 15 minutes and ioannis and zafer have been super helpful with any questions we had.

In general I think this is a good direction and an interesting take on the open question around sustainable open source. Congrats on the launch and keep up the great work! :)

You could contribute to IHP! We have some great docs to get started here https://github.com/digitallyinduced/ihp/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md And we have some low hanging fruits in GitHub issues for you to get started with, e.g. https://github.com/digitallyinduced/ihp/issues/1601 (also there's always lots of activity in the IHP Slack, in case you have any questions/need help)