A couple of weeks ago Facebook presented , 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 . Disclaimer: Hooks are an experimental proposal to React, currently available in , and the api is not final yet. Use at your own risk. A first example of a hook is . When the hook is called, we receive a variable representing the state and a function to update the state. Example: Note that accepts a default value for the…

Hi all, A quick update regarding the new release of the project. There is a new and shiny . Install: The executable will be added to your path. Another new feature is the option.This will respect . You can check the for all changes in the 2.8 version. Last but not least there is a rumor that the project might move to the organization. This could lead to more people being involved in the project. Many thanks for everyone that was involved in this release. Enjoy, le mec nojaf UPDATE: Fantomas did indeed move to…

As part of the my mentor and I have been working on the .Fantomas is like or but for F#.It was originally created by Anh-Dung Phan and people have suggested that it could be a part of the. 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 organized the move to . The port had its challenges but in the end, we were able to release .Added…

Want to use Docker to develop Fable applications? What if I told you it isn't all that difficult? So the first step with Docker images is that you check whether a suiting image that fits your needs already exists.When I checked Docker Hub for any recent images with the Fable tool chain I didn't really find anything that works with Fable 1.x. I accepted the fact that I would have to create the image myself.If you check the for requirements, we'll need: At first I thought that I would need two containers. One with Mono to restore the dependencies…

2016 for me personal was the year the I came in serious contact with functional languages. I started looking at F#, applied functional concepts (partial application, immutability, pure functions and so on) in JavaScript, gave RxJS a shot and fell in love with React. A logical next step was looking at Elm. I was first introduced to Elm at a a while ago by . To be honest I was a bit overwhelmed at the time and a bit skeptical afterwards. I decided to give Elm another shot and learned a lot by following . Now I feel ready…