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Awesome F#

A curated list of awesome F# frameworks, libraries, software and resources.

Table of Contents

• Awesome F#
  • Actor frameworks
  • Build tools
  • Cloud
  • Compilers
  • Concurrent, asynchronous and parallel programming
  • Configuration
  • Data Science
  • Development Tools
    • IDE
    • Editor plugins
  • Game development
  • General purpose libraries
  • HTTP Clients
  • Logging
  • Package Management
  • Parsing
  • Search
  • Serialization
  • Testing
  • Type providers
    • Creating type providers
  • Web frameworks
  • .Net Core Templates
  • Resources
    • Blogs
    • Cheatsheets
    • Community
    • Other Lists
    • Websites
    • Videos

Actor frameworks

• Akka.NET ★ 2239 ⧗ 0 - Community-driven port of the popular Java/Scala framework Akka to .NET. [Apache 2.0]
• Akkling ★ 45 ⧗ 1 - F# typed API for Akka.NET. [Apache 2.0]
• Cricket ★ 141 ⧗ 380 - Actor framework for F#. [Unlicense]
• Orleankka ★ 175 ⧗ 5 - Functional API for Orleans Framework. [Apache 2.0]
• Orleans ★ 2754 ⧗ 0 - Distributed Virtual Actor Model. [MIT]
• Proto.actor ★ 692 ⧗ 0 - Cross-platform actor framework for .NET, GO, JAVA and KOTLIN. [Apache 2.0]

Build tools

• FAKE ★ 733 ⧗ 0 - "F# Make" is a cross platform build automation system. [Apache 2.0]
• Xake ★ 8 ⧗ 0 - Another MAKE utility implementation on F#, fully declarative with no-brain parallelism, inspired by Shake. [MIT]

Cloud

• FsFirestore - Functional F# library to access Firestore database hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Firebase. [MIT]

Compilers

• F# Compiler Services ★ 159 ⧗ 0 - The F# Compiler, F# Interactive scripting engine and F# editing services as a component library. [Apache 2.0]
• Fable ★ 808 ⧗ 0 - F# to JavaScript Compiler. [Apache 2.0]
• FSharp ★ 1549 ⧗ 0 - The Open Edition of the F# compiler, core library and tools. [Apache 2.0]
• FunScript ★ 446 ⧗ 64 - F# to JavaScript compiler with JQuery etc. mappings through a TypeScript type provider. [Apache-2.0]
• Fez ★ 49 ⧗ 0 - F# to Erlang compiler. [MIT]
• Juniper ★ 73 ⧗ 0 - Functional Reactive Programming for the Arduino and other microcontrollers. [MIT]
• Pengines.Client ★ 3 ⧗ 0 - sandboxed Prolog environment. [BSD-2-Clause]
• Visual F# ★ 988 ⧗ 0 - The Visual F# compiler and tools. [Apache 2.0]

Concurrent, asynchronous and parallel programming

• FSharp.Control.AsyncSeq ★ 28 ⧗ 12 - Collection of asynchronous programming utilities for F#. [Apache 2.0]
• FSharpx.Async ★ 37 ⧗ 56 - Collection of asynchronous programming utilities for F#. [Apache 2.0]
• Giraffe.Tasks ★ 13 ⧗ 0 - task computation expression to work natively with .NET's Tasks from an F# application. [Apache 2.0]
• Hopac ★ 268 ⧗ 7 - Concurrent ML style concurrent programming library for F#. [MIT]
• Reaction.AsyncRx - An implementation of Async Observables in F# for .NET and Fable. [MIT]
• TaskBuilder.fs - F# computation expression builder for System.Threading.Tasks. [CC0]

Configuration

• Argu ★ 145 ⧗ 0 - Declarative CLI argument/XML configuration parser for F# applications. [MIT]
• docopt.fs ★ 18 ⧗ 0 - command line arguments parser, F# port of docopt. [MIT]
• FsConfig ★ 14 ⧗ 1 - F# library for reading configuration data from environment variables and AppSettings with type safety. [Unlicense]

Data Science

• Deedle ★ 347 ⧗ 21 - Deedle: Exploratory data library for .NET. [BSD-2-Clause]
• Deep.Net - Deep learning library for F#. Provides symbolic model differentiation, automatic differentiation and compilation to CUDA GPUs. [Apache 2.0]
• DiffSharp ★ 106 ⧗ 70 - DiffSharp is a functional automatic differentiation (AD) library. [GPL-3.0]
• FsLab ★ 97 ⧗ 171 - FsLab is a collection of libraries for data-science. It provides a rapid development envi­ronment that lets you write advanced analysis with few lines of production-quality code. [Apache 2.0]
• Math.NET ★ 1081 ⧗ 3 - Math.NET Numerics aims to provide methods and algorithms for numerical computations in science, engineering and every day use. F# specific bindings available. [MIT]
• IfSharp * 272 ⧗ 1 - F# for Jupyter Notebooks. [BSD-3-Clause]
• SIMDArray ★ 42 ⧗ 11 - SIMD enhanced Array extensions for faster computation. [MIT]

Development Tools

IDE

• MonoDevelop - Cross-platform IDE mostly aimed at Mono/.NET developers. [LGPLv2 and X11/MIT]
• Visual Studio - IDE from Microsoft with first class F# support(Windows only). [Proprietary]
• Jetbrains Rider - Cross-Platform .Net IDE with F# support. [Proprietary, free for open source projects]

Editor plugins

• Emacs F# mode ★ 80 ⧗ 27 - F# support in Emacs (including Intellisense and Interactive mode) [Apache 2.0]
• F# Bindings ★ 321 ⧗ 261 - Archive of F# Language Bindings for Open Editors. [Apache 2.0]
• Ionide - Atom Editor and Visual Studio Code package suite for cross platform F# development. [MIT]
• Fantomas ★ 119 ⧗ 5 - F# code formatter. [Apache 2.0]
• FSharpFar ★ 33 ⧗ 54 - F# support for Far Manager. [BSD-3-Clause]
• Vim F# ★ 66 ⧗ 3 - F# support for Vim. [MIT]
• VimSpeak ★ 305 ⧗ 910 - VimSpeak lets you control Vim with your voice using speech recognition. [MIT]
• Visual F# Power Tools ★ 310 ⧗ 53 - Power commands for F# in Visual Studio. [Apache 2.0]

General purpose libraries

• Aether ★ 71 ⧗ 0 - Optics library for F#, similar to the Haskell Data.Lens package. [MIT]
• Chessie ★ 96 ⧗ 272 - Railway-oriented programming. [Unlicense]
• ExtCore ★ 96 ⧗ 0 - Extended core library for F#. [Apache 2.0]
• FSharpLu ★ 133 ⧗ 20 - Lightweight utilities for string manipulations, logging, collection data structures, file operations, text processing, security, async, parsing, diagnostics, configuration files and Json serialization. [MIT]
• FSharpPlus ★ 142 ⧗ 34 - Extensions for F#. [Apache 2.0]
• TypeShape ★ 64 ⧗ 0 - Small, extensible F# library for practical generic programming. [MIT]
• LiteDB.FSharp - F# Support for LiteDB, an embedded single file database for .NET [MIT]
• Npgsql.FSharp - Thin F# wrapper around Npgsql, the PostgreSQL database driver [MIT]

Game development

• FsUnity - F# Libraries, Tools, and Plugins for the Unity3d Game Engine. [Unilicense]
• Godot - Tutorial how to use F# with Godot.
• Nu Game Engine ★ 502 ⧗ 9 - Cross-platform F# 2D game engine built in the functional style. Uses SDL2 and Farseer Physics. [MIT]

HTTP Clients

• Http.fs - A simple, functional HTTP client library for F#

Logging

• Logary ★ 259 ⧗ 0 - Logary is a high performance, multi-target logging, metric, tracing and health-check library for mono and .Net. [Apache 2.0]

Package Management

• NuGet - NuGet is the package manager for the Microsoft development platform including .NET. [Apache 2.0]
• Paket ★ 903 ⧗ 0 - Dependency manager for .NET with support for NuGet packages and Git repositories. [MIT]

Parsing

• FParsec ★ 50 ⧗ 0 - FParsec is a parser combinator library for F#. [BSD-2-Clause]
• FsAttoparsec ★ 1 ⧗ 0 - Port of Bryan O'Sullivan's attoparsec from Haskell to F#. [BSD-3-Clause]
• XParsec ★ 29 ⧗ 2 - Extensible, type-and-source-polymorphic, non-linear applicative parser combinator library for F# 3.0 and 4.0. [BSD-3-Clause]

Serialization

• FsPickler ★ 195 ⧗ 13 - Fast, multi-format messaging serializer for .NET. [MIT]
• Thoth.Json ★ 40 ⧗ 11 - Json encoder/decoder library inspire by Elm. [MIT]

Search

• FlexSearch ★ 133 ⧗ 14 - high performance REST/SOAP services based full-text searching platform built on top of the popular Lucene search library. [Apache 2.0]

Testing

• altcover ★ 139 ⧗ 0 - Cross-platform coverage gathering and processing tool set for .net/.net core and Mono. [MIT]
• canopy ★ 304 ⧗ 2 - F# web automation and testing framework. [MIT]
• Expecto ★ 124 ⧗ 2 - Smooth testing framework for F# with tests-as-values and parallelism by default. [Apache 2.0]
• FsCheck ★ 415 ⧗ 34 - Random Testing for .NET. [BSD-3-Clause]
• fsharp-hedgehog ★ 42 ⧗ 4 - Property-based testing system for F#. [Apache 2.0]
• FsUnit ★ 193 ⧗ 15 - FsUnit makes unit-testing with F# more enjoyable. It adds a special syntax to your favorite .NET testing framework. [???]
• NBomber ★ 14 ⧗ 23 - simple load testing framework for Pull and Push scenarios. [Apache 2.0]
• Persimmon ★ 29 ⧗ 9 - Unit test framework for F# using computation expressions. [MIT]
• unquote ★ 88 ⧗ 17 - Write F# unit test assertions as quoted expressions. [Apache 2.0]
• xUnit.net - Free, open source, community-focused unit testing tool for the .NET Framework. [Apache 2.0]

Type providers

• ApiaryProvider ★ 9 ⧗ 380 - Type provider for Apiary.io. [Apache 2.0]
• AzureStorageTypeProvider ★ 45 ⧗ 20 - F# Azure Type Provider which can be used to explore Blob, Table and Queue Azure Storage assets and easily apply CRUD operations on them. [Unilicense]
• COM Type Provider ★ 36 ⧗ 330 - Type provider for COM interop. [Unilicense]
• DynamicsCRMProvider ★ 8 ⧗ 380 - Type provider for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. [Apache 2.0]
• ExcelProvider ★ 45 ⧗ 75 - Excel type provider. [Unilicense]
• FSharp.Configuration ★ 60 ⧗ 6 - The project contains type providers for the configuration of .NET projects. Handles AppSettings, ResX, Yaml and Ini files. [Apache 2.0]
• FSharp.Data ★ 375 ⧗ 8 - Data science library that contains type providers for CSV, HTML, JSON, XML, and WorldBank data. [Apache 2.0]
• FSharp.Data.DbPedia ★ 9 ⧗ 379 - F# type provider for DBpedia. [Unilicense]
• FSharp.Data.HiveProvider ★ 8 ⧗ 379 - Demonstrator F# type provider for Apache Hive. [Apache 2.0]
• FSharp.Data.Npgsql ★ 6 ⧗ 1 - F# type providers library on a top of well-known Npgsql ADO.NET client library. [Apache 2.0]
• FSharp.Data.SqlClient ★ 121 ⧗ 16 - F# Type Provider for statically typed access to T-SQL command parameters and result set. [Apache 2.0]
• FSharp.Data.Tdms ★ 0 ⧗ 1 - TDMS support for F# [MIT]
• FSharp.Data.Toolbox ★ 38 ⧗ 7 - Library for various data access APIs based on FSharp.Data. The library currently includes the Twitter type provider for access to Twitter users and feeds, and SAS type provider to read SAS dataset files. [Apache 2.0]
• FSharp.Data.TypeProviders ★ 9 ⧗ 379 - Library that contains type providers for .edmx files, .dbml files, WSDL services, OData services, and SQL databases. [Unilicense]
• FSharp.Management ★ 59 ⧗ 1 - The project contains various type providers for the management of the machine. Handles file system, registry, Windows Management Instrumentation, PowerShell and SystemTimeZones. [Apache 2.0]
• FSharp.Text.RegexProvider ★ 29 ⧗ 285 - Type provider for regular expressions. [Apache 2.0]
• FsYaml ★ 33 ⧗ 41 - Typed Yaml library for F#. [NYSL Version 0.9982]
• GraphProvider ★ 21 ⧗ 379 - .dgml state machine type provider. [Apache 2.0]
• MatDataProvider ★ 6 ⧗ 378 - Erased type provider for .mat files (binary MATLAB format files). [Apache 2.0]
• R Type Provider ★ 159 ⧗ 365 - Type provider to interop with R. [BSD-2-Clause]
• Rezoom.SQL ★ 7 ⧗ 0 - Statically typed SQL for F#. [MIT]
• S3Provider ★ 16 ⧗ 379 - Experimental type provider for Amazon S3. [MIT]
• SQLProvider ★ 192 ⧗ 7 - General F# SQL database erasing type provider, supporting LINQ queries, schema exploration, individuals, CRUD operations and much more besides. [Apache 2.0]
• SwaggerProvider ★ 81 ⧗ 3 - F# generative Type Provider for Swagger. [Unilicense]

Creating type providers

• FSharp.TypeProviders.StarterPack ★ 104 ⧗ 42 - The ProvidedTypes SDK for creating F# type providers. [Apache 2.0]
• RestProvider ★ 14 ⧗ 258 - Create type providers just by implementing a simple REST service. [Apache 2.0]

Web frameworks

• Freya ★ 241 ⧗ 7 - Modern, purely functional stack for web programming in F#. [Apache 2.0]
• Genit ★ 62 ⧗ 1 - Cross-platform website generator and server using F#, Suave and PostgreSQL or MS SQL Server.
• Giraffe ★ 526 ⧗ 49 - Native functional ASP.NET Core web framework for F# developers. [Apache 2.0]
• Saturn ★ 62 ⧗ 2 - Opinionated, web development framework for F# which implements the server-side, functional MVC pattern. [MIT]
• Suave ★ 756 ⧗ 2 - 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. [Apache 2.0]
• WebSharper ★ 270 ⧗ 7 - F#-based web programming platform including a compiler from F# code to JavaScript. [Apache 2.0]

.Net Core Templates

• MiniScaffold
  • F# Template for creating and publishing libraries targeting .NET Full (net45) and Core (netstandard1.6)
  • dotnet new -i MiniScaffold::*
• Giraffe Template (Quick install: dotnet new -i "giraffe-template::*")
• vbfox's F# Templates
  • F# Template for creating github project with appveyor and travis support
• Fable, F# |> Babel dotnet new -i Fable.Template::*
• Fable-elmish dotnet new -i Fable.Template.Elmish.React::*
• Freya dotnet new --install Freya.Template::*
• ASP.NET Core WebAPI F# Template dotnet new -i WebAPI.FSharp.Template::*
• Expecto Template dotnet new -i Expecto.Template::*
• NancyFx Template dotnet new -i NancyFx.Core.Template::*
• SAFE Stack Template dotnet new -i SAFE.Template::*

Resources

Blogs

• Dave Thomas
• Don Syme
• Krzysztof Cieslak
• Mark Seemann
• Sergey Tihon
• Tomas Petricek

Cheatsheets

• F# cheatsheet
• F# Snips
• F# tour
• Learn F# in Y minutes

Community

• F# on Github
• F# on Discourse
• F# on IRC
• F# on Slack

Other Lists

• Awesome .NET! ★ 4458 ⧗ 2 - Collection of awesome .NET libraries, tools, frameworks and software. [CC0 1.0]
• Awesome Fable - Curated list of useful Fable tutorials, libraries and software. [CC0 1.0]
• F# Community Projects - FSharp community projects
• WTF# - podcast focused on F# and its ecosystem

Websites

• F# Software Foundation - Main website
• F# for Fun and Profit - Reference tutorials
• Community for F# - Links to dojos and recordings of community presentations.
• DotNetFiddle - Online REPL
• SharpLab - C#/VB/F# compiler playground.
• Try F# - Online tutorials, currently without execution of code due to Silverlight dependency
• fantomas-ui - FSharp source code formatter
• ast-viewer - F# AST viewer
• cs2fs - Transform C# code to F# code

Videos

• Austin F# Meetup Group Recorded Presentations