Resources to learn the F# ecosystem

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/fsharp

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  • Expecto

    A smooth testing lib for F#. APIs made for humans! Strong testing methodologies for everyone!

  • Unit testing: I personally use FsUnit, specifically FsUnit.Xunit. There's some other libraries like Expecto and Hedgehog (property testing), but I haven't found a reason to use them. I recently started experimenting a little with Hedgehog. FsUnit integrates well into Visual Studio, since it sits nicely on top of NUnit and xUnit, and it's done everything I've needed so far.

  • fsharp-hedgehog

    Release with confidence, state-of-the-art property testing for .NET.

  • Unit testing: I personally use FsUnit, specifically FsUnit.Xunit. There's some other libraries like Expecto and Hedgehog (property testing), but I haven't found a reason to use them. I recently started experimenting a little with Hedgehog. FsUnit integrates well into Visual Studio, since it sits nicely on top of NUnit and xUnit, and it's done everything I've needed so far.

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  • MSBuild

    The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is the build platform for .NET and Visual Studio.

  • The main thing they do is to list projects so that you can open a solution and see a set of projects, or build a solution and build everything there. They also give a lot of customization and fortunately it's rare that you need to know anything about that. It does feel somewhat unnecessary since you should be able to open a project with its dependencies. Hopefully solution files are going to be cleaned up: https://github.com/dotnet/msbuild/issues/1730

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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