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F# SAFE web stack using Turbolinks

This repository demonstrates how Turbolinks can be used with the F# SAFE web stack.

I have written a companion blog post that goes into more detail on the setup.

Turbolinks

Turbolinks can be a good compromise when only a little interactivity is needed on the frontend, and you don't want to setup a full single page application. It gives the user the feel a single-page application, but most of the business logic can be kept server-side.

From the Turbolinks documentation:

Turbolinks® makes navigating your web application faster. Get the performance benefits of a single-page application without the added complexity of a client-side JavaScript framework. Use HTML to render your views on the server side and link to pages as usual. When you follow a link, Turbolinks automatically fetches the page, swaps in its <body>, and merges its <head>, all without incurring the cost of a full page load.

Install pre-requisites

You'll need to install the following pre-requisites in order to build SAFE applications

  • The .NET Core SDK
  • The NPM package manager.
  • Node LTS installed for the front end components.
  • If you're running on OSX or Linux, you'll also need to install Mono.

Work with the application

Before you run the project for the first time only you should install its local tools with this command:

dotnet tool restore

To run the application in watch mode use the following command. (There is no hot module reloading, since we are not using webpack-dev-server. This is a server-side web application):

dotnet fake build -t run

Documentation

You will find more documentation about the used components at the following places: