Static page with Websharper?

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I have been looking into Websharper, and was wondering if it's possible to use it for static web apps. That is, not hosted in IIS, but as a static web page with javascript.

Websharper is a platform for deploying web applications using only F#. It generates javascript from F# for the presentation and lets you write the server backend in the same code base. — Walt, Jun 26 '10 at 01:35

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 08 '10 at 13:18

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Current WebSharper release does not make this scenario easy. For the next release, we are developing server-side HTML combinators and page/website combinators. With these combinators, you will be able to define complete pages and linked websites in F#, and then either serve them via IIS or compile them out to static HTML.

answered Jul 08 '10 at 13:18

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It has recently become possible with the use of Sitelets. – Dmitri Nesteruk Mar 15 '11 at 13:00
The 2.1 release, about to be revealed to the public, contains a static page combinator abstraction called a "sitelet." – t0yv0 Jan 21 '11 at 13:55

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 25 '10 at 21:24

I imagine that, in the worst case, there is a degenerate 'yes' answer, in that you could

host a page in the web server that had static content and client-side javascript
hit that page in the browser, and view & download source
save that result and use it as static page content

and thus in that respect it behaves as a kind of F#-to-Javascript translator.

That said, I have not had time to try out WebSharper myself, and so I could be wrong, or even if I am right, there could be a simpler workflow for this scenario, or who knows what. Hopefully someone will step in with a better answer.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 11 '16 at 15:14

There's a few options you could use and WebSharper comes with several templates for these now a days. You can self host with owin or suave (templates for both available) you could also host with NancyFx or any other lightweight container and if you use a SPA template it's all static content

Static page with Websharper?

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