FsHttp
A lightweight F# HTTP library by @SchlenkR and @dawedawe (by fsprojects)
Npgsql.FSharp
Thin F# wrapper around Npgsql, the PostgreSQL database driver for .NET (by Zaid-Ajaj)
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| FsHttp | Npgsql.FSharp | |
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| 1 | 7 | |
| 415 | 308 | |
| 4.1% | - | |
| 9.2 | 1.8 | |
| 22 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| F# | F# | |
| Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
FsHttp
Posts with mentions or reviews of FsHttp.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-15.
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Making Http Requests in F#
Why do I mention this? because today we'll see three ways to do Http Requests with different libraries, we'll first explore the BCL's (Base Class Library) System.Net.Http then we'll proceed to use Flurl and finally we'll check FsHttp, and depending on your taste or needs you may want to use one or the other.
Npgsql.FSharp
Posts with mentions or reviews of Npgsql.FSharp.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-09.
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Idiomatic way to interact with database
When working with F#, my database layer code has always seemed ugly. It feels like functional languages don't pair well with storage. I've used F# with Dapper, EF, and Npgsql.FSharp. Although Npgsql.FSharp works well, I would still like to use something like EF since it handles inserts and updates so well.
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Best practices F# API?
Not a big fan of ORMs in general, I've been using https://github.com/Zaid-Ajaj/Npgsql.FSharp for postgres.
- Data Access in Fsharp
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Best resources for learning F# to write boring apps?
On Postgres, there's a decent low ceremony option by Zaid Ajaj: https://github.com/Zaid-Ajaj/Npgsql.FSharp
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Recommended libraries / frameworks for web services
For database, I use PostgreSQL with https://github.com/Zaid-Ajaj/Npgsql.FSharp and I like it very much. Writing the services, I do hide database operations behind interfaces like
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Making Http Requests in F#
Npgsql.FSharp
What are some alternatives?
When comparing FsHttp and Npgsql.FSharp you can also consider the following projects:
restclient-cpp - C++ client for making HTTP/REST requests
SqlHydra - SqlHydra is a suite of NuGet packages for working with databases in F# including code generation tools and query expressions.