Building Web, Cloud, and Mobile Solutions With F# by Mohl, Daniel -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Building Web, Cloud, and Mobile Solutions with F# Preface

Who This Book Is For Getting Set Up to Run the Examples How This Book Is Organized Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples Safari® Books Online How to Contact Us Acknowledgments

1. Building an ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Application with F#

The F# ASP.NET MVC 4 Project Templates

Finding and Installing the Templates Exploring the C# Project Dissecting the F# Project

Global.fs HomeController.fs

F# Controllers and Models

Controllers Models

Interacting with a Database

Entity Framework Querying the Data Querying with Type Providers

Taking Advantage of F#

Moving to a More Functional Approach Understanding Pipelining and Partial Function Application Making the Controller More Functional Simplification with Pattern Matching

Related Advanced Topics and Concepts

Improving Responsiveness with Async Workflows Caching with MailboxProcessor

Messages as a discriminated union type The core agent Using the new CacheAgent

Jumping on the Message Bus

SimpleBus Publishing messages Consuming messages

Continuation-Passing Style Creating a Custom Computation Expression

Summary

2. Creating Web Services with F#

Installing the Existing WCF Project Template Exploring the Output Code

Consuming the Service Diving into Records

Building an ASP.NET Web API Service

Analyzing the Template Interacting with the HTTP Service

Using HttpClient The JSON type provider Before we leave ASP.NET Web API

Exploring Other Web Frameworks

Service Stack Nancy Frank

Testing Your Creation

Getting Set Up Improving Tests with F# FsUnit Unquote NaturalSpec

Summary

3. To the Cloud! Taking Advantage of Azure

Building and Hosting F# on Azure Creating an F# Worker Role Introducing Fog Interacting with Azure Storage Options

Blobs Tables Queue Storage SQL Azure

Taking Advantage of the Azure Service Bus

Queues Topics

Exploring Authentication and Authorization

Authentication and Authorization with ACS Claims-based Authentication Claims-based Authorization

Building for Scalability

Building the Web Role Understanding the PlaceOrderCommand On to the Worker Roles Wrapping Up the SQL Azure Worker Role Adding the Finishing Touches Caching CDN and Autoscaling

Shining F# Examples

{m}brace Cloud Numerics Framework for .NET Hadoop MapReduce

Summary

4. Constructing Scalable Web and Mobile Solutions

Scaling with Web Sockets

Building a Web Socket Example with .NET 4.5 and IIS 8 Creating a Web Socket Server with Fleck

Using SignalR

Building a Persistent Connection Example A JavaScript Client An F# Client Constructing a Hub Example

The server side The client side

Going Mobile

The jQuery Mobile Approach Adding Windows Phone

Combining F# and NoSQL

MongoDB RavenDB CouchDB

Summary

5. Functional Frontend Development

Setting the Stage Looking at LiveScript

Benefits Usage Example

Exploring Pit

Benefits Usage Example

Diving into WebSharper

Benefits Usage Example

Summary

A. Useful Tools and Libraries

FAKE (F# Make) NuGet

Basic Usage Useful NuGet Packages

ExpectThat

B. Useful Websites

fssnip.net tryfsharp.org Visual Studio Gallery jQueryMobile.com

C. Client-Side Technologies That Go Well with F#

CoffeeScript Sass Underscore.js

Index About the Author Colophon Copyright

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