It took me a few tries to finally call an HTTP endpoint using F#.I've ended up with this code: let result = async { let client = new HttpClient() let url = "https://api.frankfurter.app/latest?amount=10.99&from=USD&to=PLN" ...
I'm a big proponent of using delegates instead of interfaces as described here. Recently I've found out that it works wonderfully with the partial application! Partial application is a concept widely used in functional programming. It's a function th...
Recently I've finally dug a bit deeper into the SAFE stack.One of the most exciting resources to start with full-stack F# applications was SAFE Dojo. It doesn't require a lot of preparation. Just install .Net Core SDK version 5 or higher, and you are...
Regularly I want to await a few tasks and get their result. Surprisingly, there is no obvious way to do that. Task.WhenAll can be helpful, as we see later, but it doesn't solve the problem.My common scenario looks like this: var dbTasks = getDataFrom...
GitLab has built-in support for feature flags. Since I've become a big supporter of this approach, I was happy to see this. GitLab uses Unleash as a feature toggle service. It has a free, open-sourced client for many platforms and can be found on Nu...
I test my code with API calls all the time. Because of this, Rider HTTP Client is a lifesaver.Usually, I call some endpoint for a token and then try to get some data from the service. So let's try to use Rider for this case. First, we have to run the...