Sample Project Ideas

[pimbrouwers]

Opening the floor to ideas for sample projects.

We currently have:

• Hello world
• Markdown blog

Some of my ideas:

• Todo MVC (kind of boring)
• A restaurant booking system (a la @ploeh)
• A public notepad (i.e. jsfiddle for plain-text)

[waghanza]

There is also https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld @pimbrouwers

[rishavs]

+1 for Realworld. Nothing better than a full webapp done in a framework to gauge its strengths and weaknesses.

Also consider 2 more sample projects;

• Falco API server with a SPA frontend + authentication and security best practices
• Falco API server with Fable frontend.

Also, do consider outting the framework on Techempower. Techempower is fairly ubiquitous nowadays and it will be great to see how well Falco stacks up against other frameworks in pure performance, even if pure performance may not be the Falco goal. Having this data will be extremely helpful to people who are hesitant to try out F# as there is so low representation for fsharp tools and libraries in all these conversations.

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

[pimbrouwers]

Thanks guys! Realworld seems like a great project. I'll see what I can do.

@rishavs We're actually already on techempower! I haven't done a PR for v2.0.0 yet though. I'm not really a SPA person, so I'd want to collaborate with more of an expert on that type of project. Totally open to it though.

[bytesource]

This maybe is a bit off-topic, but whatever project you choose, I think it would be great if you could add a step-by-step tutorial on how you built everything and your reasoning behind it.

I'm relatively new to F# and learning only by desecting code often leads to frustrations, either because I don't understand a certain line of code and get stuck or because I want to know the "Why" behind an implementation.

In fact, at this point, I'm more and more making decisions based on available real-world tutorials, as these allow me to make real progress ("actionable" as marketers like to say).

For example, I wanted to learn Bolero, but the tutorial on the website only gives a broad overview, which is not enough to use it in a project. On the other side, Zaid Ajaj wrote a book about Elmish, https://zaid-ajaj.github.io/the-elmish-book/#/, so I sticked with Elmish.

Just my two cents...

Stefan

[delneg]

You can also take a look at https://github.com/atsapura/CardManagement

[pimbrouwers]

Thanks @delneg I'll check that out.

Development of the @gothinkster real-world app is taking place here: https://github.com/pimbrouwers/realworld-starter-kit

[brettrowberry]

Mostly, I want to see a good way to document APIs with OpenAPI/Swagger - whether manually, automatically, or somewhere in between.

[pimbrouwers]

@brettrowberry -- Sounds good. I imagine you're not alone, so how about over the holiday's I get a little more informed on the topic of OpenAPI v. Swagger and I'll do a little tutorial for the samples directory.

I'm also hopeful to finish the gothinkster impl. soon as well now that API and some higher patterns have solidified.

[brettrowberry]

Look at the index.html and swagger.JSON for a minimal working example. Basically, Swagger UI needs an OpenAPI document hosted on a known endpoint in either JSON or YML format.
https://github.com/brettrowberry/okapi/tree/main/WebRoot. Some people might not be ok with getting the static assets referenced in the index.html from a CDN, but I think it’s fine to start with.