examQuestionCore VS Dapper.FSharp

I use this to distribute exams to my students https://github.com/rtbsoft/examQuestionCore

Have a look at what I've done here: https://github.com/rtbsoft/examQuestionCore . I'm all for the right level of complexity and accessing dbContext in the controller is just fine. I've worked on a project with a DTO layer and an Repository layer and interfaces everywhere and it just ended up that every change required touching multiple files and running automated tools (which sometimes failed on the build server) -- with almost no gain in security or any other metric I could think of. KISS

Here's a project I created for teaching purposes: https://github.com/rtbsoft/examQuestionCore Hope you can learn something by studying this code.

My front end tool of choice is Vue. You can see the combo here: https://github.com/rtbsoft/examQuestionCore and here: https://github.com/rtbsoft/examQuestionVue.

What about Dapper.FSharp?

Dapper FSharp is quite popular and worth checking out.

I have been looking for frameworks to work with databases in f# and found some reasonable. My favorite so far is Dapper.FSharp. It's a very nice CRUD helper. I looked for some 'fsharp helper' for EF and found EFCore.FSharp which does not support discriminated unions unfortunately and does not go very far. I was intrigued by Litedb.FSharp but I would like to stick with sql databases.

Database: SQL or Event Store. If SQL, One of https://fsprojects.github.io/SQLProvider/, https://github.com/Dzoukr/Dapper.FSharp or https://github.com/SQLStreamStore/SQLStreamStore

They are slightly different and depending on your background one might feel more confortable than the other Feel free to choose the one you like the best, in my case I will continue the rest of the post with the Expression based one given that we already have some expression based code from Dapper.FSharp. Previously we added some authors, let'ts try to add Posts to those authors with Donald.