Open Source F# Formats and Protocols

The FSharp.Data package implements core functionality to access common data formats in your F# applications and scripts. It contains F# type providers for working with structured file formats (CSV, HTML, JSON and XML) and helpers for parsing CSV, HTML and JSON files and for sending HTTP requests. This library focuses on providing simple access to structured documents and other data sources. The FSharp.Data type providers for CSV, HTML, JSON and XML infer types from the structure of a sample document (or a document containing multiple samples). The structure is then used to provide easy to use type-safe access to documents that follow the same structure. The package contains functionality to simplify data access. In particular, it includes tools for HTTP web requests and CSV, HTML, and JSON parsers with simple dynamic API.

Suave is a simple web development F# library providing a lightweight web server and a set of combinators to manipulate route flow and task composition. Suave is inspired in the simplicity of Happstack and born out of the necessity of embedding web server capabilities in my own applications. Suave supports Websocket, HTTPS, multiple TCP/IP bindings, Basic Access Authentication, Keep-Alive. Suave also takes advantage of F# asynchronous workflows to perform non-blocking IO. In fact, Suave is written in a completely non-blocking fashion throughout. We have a NuGet ready for your testing needs; Suave is an excellent server for running in-process integration tests, as it's very fast to spawn. On an ordinary laptop, running hundreds of randomized tests and micro-benchmarks as well as all Suave unit tests, take about 5 seconds on mono.