What is Saturn?
It is a web development framework written in F# which implements the server-side MVC pattern. Many of its components and concepts will seem familiar to anyone with experience in other web frameworks like Ruby on Rails or Python’s Django.
Saturn is a tool in the Frameworks (Full Stack) category of a tech stack.
Saturn is an open source tool with 716 GitHub stars and 110 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Saturn's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Saturn?
Developers
8 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Saturn.
Saturn's Features
- Combines the well known MVC pattern with the power of FP and F# to make web programming fun and easy
- Builds on top of highly optimized, and battle tested technologies such as ASP.NET Core, Giraffe and Kestrel
- Provides set of tools, templates and guides that makes creating and maintaining applications seamlessly
- created and maintained by well known members of the F# OSS Community and supported by industrial users
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What are some alternatives to Saturn?
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