Saturn VS Giraffe.Razor

Compare Saturn vs Giraffe.Razor and see what are their differences.

Saturn

Opinionated, web development framework for F# which implements the server-side, functional MVC pattern (by SaturnFramework)
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Saturn Giraffe.Razor
9 3
695 33
0.6% -
2.1 0.0
7 days ago 8 months ago
F# F#
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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Saturn

Posts with mentions or reviews of Saturn. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-19.
  • F# File uploads with Saturn and Falco
    2 projects | dev.to | 19 Jul 2023
    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!
  • Targeting Node, Bun and Deno With F#
    10 projects | dev.to | 13 Jul 2022
    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
  • If you were to create a Web API today from scratch how would you do it ?
    7 projects | /r/dotnet | 2 Apr 2022
    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.
  • Why did you (any .NET pro) either choose or switch to using F#?
    4 projects | /r/dotnet | 22 Dec 2021
    The "S" stands for Saturn. Suave is not very popular.
  • Building a Webpack alternative in F#
    14 projects | dev.to | 16 Dec 2021
    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.
  • Show HN: F# web server in 3-4 lines of code
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Nov 2021
  • Phoenix for F#
    1 project | /r/fsharp | 25 Sep 2021
    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.
  • Doing MVC in F# and Saturn
    4 projects | dev.to | 16 Jul 2021
    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.
  • Saturn 0.15 Released 🔷🚀🪐
    1 project | /r/fsharp | 9 Jun 2021
    🌱release on github

Giraffe.Razor

Posts with mentions or reviews of Giraffe.Razor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-16.
  • Generando HTML en F#
    2 projects | dev.to | 16 Aug 2021
  • Doing MVC in F# and Saturn
    4 projects | dev.to | 16 Jul 2021
    There are other DSL Flavors out there like https://github.com/dbrattli/Feliz.ViewEngine (a react based DSL) or https://github.com/giraffe-fsharp/Giraffe.Razor (if you like razor pages) so if you feel this is too much, don't worry you can still write plain HTML (cshtml) or React jsx like code.
  • Generating HTML in F#
    3 projects | dev.to | 16 Jul 2021
    The first two are F# DSL's to build HTML, the last one is an HTML scripting language for .NET (there's also Giraffe.Razor but I'll skip that one for today)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Saturn and Giraffe.Razor you can also consider the following projects:

Giraffe - A native functional ASP.NET Core web framework for F# developers.

Feliz.ViewEngine - Feliz DSL and engine for HTML generation and server side rendering (SSR)

Suave.IO - Suave is a simple web development F# library providing a lightweight web server and a set of combinators to manipulate route flow and task composition.

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

scriban - A fast, powerful, safe and lightweight scripting language and engine for .NET

Freya - Freya Web Stack - Meta-Package

SailsJS - Realtime MVC Framework for Node.js

ASP.NET Core - ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform .NET framework for building modern cloud-based web applications on Windows, Mac, or Linux.

Giraffe.DotLiquid - DotLiquid template engine http handlers for Giraffe web applications.

  dotNetify - Simple, lightweight, yet powerful way to build real-time web apps.

FubuMVC - A front-controller style MVC framework for .NET