Saturn VS CliWrap

Today I don't have a new series to start with but rather a simple example which may or may not grow in another blog series. For the moment we'll talk about how to do File uploads to an F# backend powered by Falco and Saturn so let's get started!

Bix is a micro-framework designed with F# in mind and that runs on both Deno and Bun! and in theory it also should even run in a service worker! (intercepting fetch requests) although I haven't tested that yet, it offers a general purpose handler that coupled with a set of route definitions it can bring a Giraffe/Saturn like framework to life in JavaScript runtimes which is incredibly awesome! useful? maybe not 😅, but awesome indeed. Let's see some code for it

Backend: Most likely it would be a toss between https://saturnframework.org or https://giraffe.wiki. They both combins the extremely good type system in F# combined with the ease of a minimal API.

The "S" stands for Saturn. Suave is not very popular.

While for a proof of concept Suave did great, I switched it in favor of Saturn given my familiarity with it and some ASP.NET code.

Saturn is heavily inspired by phoenix and has similar generators, and a channel system that is similar. As well as almost the exact same syntax for the router with plugs and all.

Today we'll try to keep it as simple as possible but no promises, since this entry is about creating web servers in F# using Saturn and not only that, we'll also try to go for a more traditional'ish MVC.

🌱release on github

We will use the command docker logs --follow CONTAINER-NAME-OR-ID to retrieve the logs of the external container. To facilitate the execution of the external docker process, we will use CliWrap instead of the primitive Process.

That being said, keep up the good work. I see a lot of potential in combo with libs like https://github.com/Tyrrrz/CliWrap

Check out CliWrap. https://github.com/Tyrrrz/CliWrap

I am using CliWrap to create my own wrapper for the functionality I need from FFmpeg. Works pretty well!

https://github.com/Tyrrrz/CliWrap

Take a look at https://github.com/Tyrrrz/CliWrap for calling another process from one process.

For example, using the great Cli.Wrap library:

We can use Verify to perform snapshot testing and check for the correct output of the program. In order to make things easier and simplify working with process output capturing and invocation, I used CliWrap.

> You can take a look at System.Diagnostics.Process for one of the worst offenders.

Yeah, this is one of my least favourite APIs in all of .NET. My understanding is that the .NET team is planning to redo it in the next few years, but if you want something better right now I highly recommend the excellent CliWrap library: https://github.com/Tyrrrz/CliWrap