Npgsql.FSharp vs Fabulous-new

Npgsql.FSharp

Thin F# wrapper around Npgsql, the PostgreSQL database driver for .NET (by Zaid-Ajaj)

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Fabulous-new

Fabulous v2 - Work in progress (by TimLariviere)

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Npgsql.FSharp		Fabulous-new
	Project
7	Mentions	2
308	Stars	46
-	Growth	-
1.8	Activity	9.6
5 days ago	Latest Commit	about 2 years ago
F#	Language	F#
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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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.

Idiomatic way to interact with database
2 projects | /r/fsharp | 9 Apr 2023

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.
Best practices F# API?
6 projects | /r/fsharp | 9 Mar 2022

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
8 projects | dev.to | 12 Nov 2021
Best resources for learning F# to write boring apps?
2 projects | /r/fsharp | 1 Oct 2021

On Postgres, there's a decent low ceremony option by Zaid Ajaj: https://github.com/Zaid-Ajaj/Npgsql.FSharp
Recommended libraries / frameworks for web services
6 projects | /r/fsharp | 29 Apr 2021

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
Making Http Requests in F#
6 projects | dev.to | 15 Mar 2021

Npgsql.FSharp

Fabulous-new

Posts with mentions or reviews of Fabulous-new. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-09.

Best practices F# API?
6 projects | /r/fsharp | 9 Mar 2022

You could check out https://github.com/TimLariviere/Fabulous-new the goal is to support MAUI asap.
.NET MAUI Preview 11 Launched
1 project | /r/dotnet | 8 Jan 2022

No but the fabulous library plans to support MAUI in their v2.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Npgsql.FSharp and Fabulous-new you can also consider the following projects:

SqlHydra - SqlHydra is a suite of NuGet packages for working with databases in F# including code generation tools and query expressions.

Dapper.FSharp - Lightweight F# extension for StackOverflow Dapper with support for MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite

Donald - A lightweight, generic F# database abstraction.

Thoth.Json.Net

FSharp.Data.Npgsql - F# type providers to support statically typed access to input parameters and result set of sql statement in idiomatic F# way. Data modifications via statically typed tables.

FSharp.SystemTextJson - System.Text.Json extensions for F# types

ply - High performance System.Threading.(Value)Task computation expressions for F#

Falco - A toolkit for building fast and functional-first web applications using F#.

FsHttp - A lightweight F# HTTP library by @SchlenkR and @dawedawe

Rezoom.SQL - Statically typechecks a common SQL dialect and translates it to various RDBMS backends

ClosedXML.SimpleSheets - Easily generate Excel sheets from F#