Introduction Hi nojaf from the future, its you from the past. Today you created a build script for compiling Fable projects on Travis CI. Using a Docker image you maintain it is pretty easy to set up a Travis CI process. This blogpost is meant to capture what you knew then in case you sorta forgot. The good part Once you logged in to Travis, create a project by selecting a repository. Don’t worry you log in with your GitHub account and hit the add button. They know you are you and you get to choose a repository you have on GitHub. If you did that then……

Introduction This post is part of the F# Advent Calendar in English 2018. I’m very grateful to be a part of this and I hope you will enjoy this one as much as I have enjoyed the others. Today I would like to show you how you can create VS Code extension from scratch using Fable. Along the way we write some code that will extend the Markdown syntax. Project setup Code extension To get started we will follow the general approach of scaffolding a new extension. Using the yeoman generator we will scaffold a new JavaScript extension. Adding Fable In order to……

Introduction A couple of weeks ago Facebook presented React hooks, a new way of accessing React features inside functional components. In this blogpost I would like to show that the new hooks can easily be used in combination with Fable. Disclaimer: Hooks are an experimental proposal to React, currently available in , and the api is not final yet. Use at your own risk. useState() A first example of a hook is useState(). When the hook is called, we receive a variable representing the state and a function to update the state. Example: Note that accepts a……

Hi all, A quick update regarding the new release of the Fantomas project. There is a new and shiny global .NET Core cli tool. Install: dotnet tool install -g fantomas-tool The executable will be added to your path. Another new feature is the —preserveEOL option. This will respect additional newlines after formatting. You can check the release notes for all changes in the 2.8 version. Last but not least there is a rumor that the project might move to the fsprojects organization. This could lead to more people being involved in the project. Many thanks……

Introduction As part of the F# mentorship program my mentor Anthony Lloyd and I have been working on the Fantomas project. Fantomas is like prettier or elm-format but for F#. It was originally created by Anh-Dung Phan and people have suggested that it could be a part of the F# Compiler Service. Fantomas is like prettier or elm-format but for F#. .NET Core The source code of Fantomas is quite advanced so our approach is to focus first on improving the project in general. We noticed it was a bit old in terms of Visual Studio version and dependencies, so we……