Building Web, Cloud, and Mobile Solutions with F#

Table of contents

1. Building Web, Cloud, and Mobile Solutions with F#
2. Preface
   1. Who This Book Is For
   2. Getting Set Up to Run the Examples
   3. How This Book Is Organized
   4. Conventions Used in This Book
   5. Using Code Examples
   6. Safari® Books Online
   7. How to Contact Us
   8. Acknowledgments
3. 1. Building an ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Application with F#
   1. The F# ASP.NET MVC 4 Project Templates
      1. Finding and Installing the Templates
      2. Exploring the C# Project
      3. Dissecting the F# Project
         1. Global.fs
         2. HomeController.fs
   2. F# Controllers and Models
      1. Controllers
      2. Models
   3. Interacting with a Database
      1. Entity Framework
      2. Querying the Data
      3. Querying with Type Providers
   4. Taking Advantage of F#
      1. Moving to a More Functional Approach
      2. Understanding Pipelining and Partial Function Application
      3. Making the Controller More Functional
      4. Simplification with Pattern Matching
   5. Related Advanced Topics and Concepts
      1. Improving Responsiveness with Async Workflows
      2. Caching with MailboxProcessor
         1. Messages as a discriminated union type
         2. The core agent
         3. Using the new CacheAgent
      3. Jumping on the Message Bus
         1. SimpleBus
         2. Publishing messages
         3. Consuming messages
      4. Continuation-Passing Style
      5. Creating a Custom Computation Expression
   6. Summary
4. 2. Creating Web Services with F#
   1. Installing the Existing WCF Project Template
   2. Exploring the Output Code
      1. Consuming the Service
      2. Diving into Records
   3. Building an ASP.NET Web API Service
      1. Analyzing the Template
      2. Interacting with the HTTP Service
         1. Using HttpClient
         2. The JSON type provider
         3. Before we leave ASP.NET Web API
   4. Exploring Other Web Frameworks
      1. Service Stack
      2. Nancy
      3. Frank
   5. Testing Your Creation
      1. Getting Set Up
      2. Improving Tests with F#
      3. FsUnit
      4. Unquote
      5. NaturalSpec
   6. Summary
5. 3. To the Cloud! Taking Advantage of Azure
   1. Building and Hosting F# on Azure
   2. Creating an F# Worker Role
   3. Introducing Fog
   4. Interacting with Azure Storage Options
      1. Blobs
      2. Tables
      3. Queue Storage
      4. SQL Azure
   5. Taking Advantage of the Azure Service Bus
      1. Queues
      2. Topics
   6. Exploring Authentication and Authorization
      1. Authentication and Authorization with ACS
      2. Claims-based Authentication
      3. Claims-based Authorization
   7. Building for Scalability
      1. Building the Web Role
      2. Understanding the PlaceOrderCommand
      3. On to the Worker Roles
      4. Wrapping Up the SQL Azure Worker Role
      5. Adding the Finishing Touches
      6. Caching
      7. CDN and Autoscaling
   8. Shining F# Examples
      1. {m}brace
      2. Cloud Numerics
      3. Framework for .NET Hadoop MapReduce
   9. Summary
6. 4. Constructing Scalable Web and Mobile Solutions
   1. Scaling with Web Sockets
      1. Building a Web Socket Example with .NET 4.5 and IIS 8
      2. Creating a Web Socket Server with Fleck
   2. Using SignalR
      1. Building a Persistent Connection Example
      2. A JavaScript Client
      3. An F# Client
      4. Constructing a Hub Example
         1. The server side
         2. The client side
   3. Going Mobile
      1. The jQuery Mobile Approach
      2. Adding Windows Phone
   4. Combining F# and NoSQL
      1. MongoDB
      2. RavenDB
      3. CouchDB
   5. Summary
7. 5. Functional Frontend Development
   1. Setting the Stage
   2. Looking at LiveScript
      1. Benefits
      2. Usage
      3. Example
   3. Exploring Pit
      1. Benefits
      2. Usage
      3. Example
   4. Diving into WebSharper
      1. Benefits
      2. Usage
      3. Example
   5. Summary
8. A. Useful Tools and Libraries
   1. FAKE (F# Make)
   2. NuGet
      1. Basic Usage
      2. Useful NuGet Packages
   3. ExpectThat
9. B. Useful Websites
   1. fssnip.net
   2. tryfsharp.org
   3. Visual Studio Gallery
   4. jQueryMobile.com
10. C. Client-Side Technologies That Go Well with F#
    1. CoffeeScript
    2. Sass
    3. Underscore.js
11. Index
12. About the Author
13. Colophon
14. Copyright