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Let's try .net LinkGenerator, will it make working with links easier?
This is a continuation to "HATEOAS in F#" post. Let's try to simplify link generatrion in our Hogwarts accommodation API.
HATEOAS in F#
Hypermedia as the engine of application state (HATEOAS) is 24 years old now! I am coding for more than 12 years and yet I didn't see it on production in projects I worked with. Why? Is it so bad? Complex?
.NET 6 Minimal apis for F# devs, what we get? (including testing)
So with .NET 6 we have received loudly announced minimal apis. Well... I would name them normal APIs (I am looking 👀 on express.js ...) but let's put the sarcasm aside and lets see how it could improve API development for F# …
Let's play with playwright using F# scripts.
In June Microsoft announced that .NET SDK is stable. For a long time, Selenium was (as far as I know) the only feature-rich web testing framework in .NET (except paid ones like Ranorex or Telerik Test Studio). I never liked the waits I …
Invariants as discriminated unions, validation and always valid objects.
Everyone (including me) when applying DDD at some points fights with validation and invariants. Probably You tried different approaches already - validating within the domain, duplicating the validation logic for both: application …
Outbox pattern in F# with polling publisher
If you are implementing more than one service and you need to establish asynchronous communication in-between, or if you need bullet-proof asynchronous communication with 3rd party services the outbox pattern might be a handy tool. …
F# Dependency Injection - how to compose dependencies with partial application and don't fail with …
One question you might ask yourself before starting a bigger project in F# How to inject dependencies? Let me show you how we used partial application to achieve loosely coupled testable components that can be tested in isolation or …
Simple netcore F# app to control Spotify from the terminal on Linux
I am addicted to Spotify, I have Linux, I L💖ve F# so I decided to give it a try to control Spotify on Linux using Terminal. Join the ride! We will add a nice feature that will allow us to download lyrics of the current song and we will …
Make F# play nice with C# Part 2 - how to handle option and nullable mismatch and work with dapper
This is the next part of the C# and F# integration journey. This time we will look into Dapper functional wrapper and option vs nullable type mismatch. Together with the previous post, we will close the loop of C# and F# coexistence.
Make F# play nice with C# - how to compose dependencies while hosting with C# project
F# is a nice functional alternative in .NET. I have convinced my teammates to use F# in our project at my work in a small new accounting bounded context that would be hosted by .NET Core C# host and Autofac based composition root. We …