Create HTML componants for your WebSharper webapp with UI Next template WebSharper.UI.Next comes with a simple template engine which can be used to build doc elements. It is built using a F# typeprovider therefore gives typesafety for templating. If you never used WebSharper or WebSharper.UI.Next before, I published a tutorial few months ago on how WebSharper works and how you can use it to

Approximate your spending pattern using Gradient descent in FSharp The advantage of tracking your expenses is that you can compare each month and check if you saved more or less money than the previous month. Another interesting information is to know how fast you are spending your money. Checking how fast you spend your money gives you a hint on whether you are likely to be out or within budget

How to setup a nice output folder for WebSharper projects There are part of software development which aren’t very exciting. Setting up output directories is one of them. But we have to go through it because having a well defined output structure helps tremendously when time comes to deploy and publish an application. When using the default template from WebSharper, it could be confusing how and

Manage mutable state using actors with F# Mailbox processor Today I would like to share a technique that I use to maintain mutable shared state in my F# applications. This technique uses the MailboxProcesser, a simplified implementation of the actor model built into F#. Here’s the issue: I have a dataframe shared accross my whole application. The dataframe is constructed at bootup of the server

From idea to product with WebSharper in FSharp From time to time I get asked, Why do you use WebSharper? A legitimate question as from the abundance of libraries, tools and frameworks available, one might think that WebSharper + F# is just another hippie stack. My answer to this question is: What matters isn’t the tools that you use but the products that you build with those tools WebSharper