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Saturn
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F# File uploads with Saturn and Falco
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!
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Targeting Node, Bun and Deno With F#
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
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If you were to create a Web API today from scratch how would you do 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.
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Why did you (any .NET pro) either choose or switch to using F#?
The "S" stands for Saturn. Suave is not very popular.
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Building a Webpack alternative in F#
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
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Phoenix for F#
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.
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Doing MVC in F# and Saturn
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.
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Saturn 0.15 Released 🔷🚀🪐
🌱release on github
freya
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Ebou Released 🚀: A (mostly full featured) cross platform desktop Mastodon client written in Rust + Dioxus
Awesome, when it's properly release I'll give it a try with freya (https://github.com/marc2332/freya, a skia-based renderer for Dioxus I am making)
- GUI development with Rust and GTK 4
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What is the most fully-featured rust frontend framework?
Or if you don't care about web compatibility, you can use Dioxus' state management with Freya which is more complete and renderers natively with Skia
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XUL Layout has been removed from Firefox
There are a number of up-and-coming Rust-based frameworks in this niche:
- https://github.com/iced-rs/iced (probably the most usable today)
- https://github.com/vizia/vizia
- https://github.com/marc2332/freya
- https://github.com/linebender/xilem (currently very incomplete but exciting because it's from a team with a strong track record)
What is also exciting to me is that the Rust GUI ecosystem is in many cases building itself up with modular libraries. So while we have umpteen competing frameworks they are to a large degree all building and collaborating on the same foundations. For example, we have:
- https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit (cross-platform window creation)
- https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu (abstraction on top of vulkan/metal/dx12)
- https://github.com/linebender/vello (a canvas like imperative drawing API on top of wgpu)
- https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy (UI layout algorithms)
- https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-text (text rendering and editing)
- https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit (cross-platform accessibility APIs)
In many cases there a see https://blessed.rs/crates#section-graphics-subsection-gui for a more complete list of frameworks and foundational libraries)
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Declarative UI Programming in Rust for Native Applications
https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus (which has native rendering in the form of https://github.com/marc2332/freya)
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Taffy 0.3: UI layout in Rust, now with css-grid!
There hasn't been too much progress on Blitz in the last few weeks (it will come), but there is now a new project Freya which is using a Dioxus frontend and rendering with Skia. That's currently using it's own layout system instead of Taffy though.
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Rust GUI framework
Freya
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What's everyone working on this week (6/2023)?
A native GUI library https://github.com/marc2332/freya
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Looking for feedback on the next version of viewbuilder! The UI framework with a new a compose-like API
Since you’re working with Taffy and Skia, have you checked out Freya? There’s more room for innovation in the more tightly scoped niches of this kind.
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Making Dioxus (almost) as fast as SolidJS
Marc has also made some really good progress on a skia renderer but I don't think it is ready for production yet.
What are some alternatives?
Giraffe - A native functional ASP.NET Core web framework for F# developers.
iced_taffy - Library for using Taffy layout with the Iced GUI framework. It currently provides a single Grid component for 2D grid layout.
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.
xilem - An experimental Rust native UI framework
Falco - A toolkit for building fast and functional-first web applications using F#.
steel - An embedded scheme interpreter in Rust
Freya - Freya Web Stack - Meta-Package
rustapi - 🚀 RESTful Rust API Template / Boilerplate
ASP.NET Core - ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform .NET framework for building modern cloud-based web applications on Windows, Mac, or Linux.
cosmic-text - Pure Rust multi-line text handling
dotNetify - Simple, lightweight, yet powerful way to build real-time web apps.
blitz - High performance HTML and CSS renderer powered by WGPU