13 Web programming
This chapter covers
- The web and its relationship with functional programming
- Web programming on .NET and F#
- Server-side web development in F#
- Client-side web development with Elmish
- The SAFE Stack
This chapter will tie together even more of what we’ve seen so far, bringing both the functional paradigm and core abstractions, such as Task-based asynchronous programming and Options to enable web programming that naturally fits with F#.
13.1 The web and functional programming
This section briefly summarizes HTTP and explains why (although this may surprise you) FP is a natural fit for web programming. One of the fundamental underpinnings of the web today was the invention of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which provided ...
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