I’ve been reading through the Haskell book I bought (the C# functional programming book isn’t here yet). So far, Haskell functional programming still looks like a gimmick more than a set of useful tools. I’ll keep reading through to the end and likely play with the language a little before I’m done.<\/p>\n
I’m looking forward to the C# functional programming book as I’m hoping it will provide a more practical view of what functional methods bring to the table. Working in a hybrid environment should allow the best of both worlds to shine and allow any awkward spots on one side of the other to be worked around.<\/p>\n
I’ve also been rummaging through a book on using node with react rather than angular 2\/4. Seems like an interesting option as react sounds less proscriptive than angular. As with angular 2 the react tool still needs a CSS library and also similarly this book suggests bootstrap.<\/p>\n
I need to sit down and code up a simple sample program that self-hosts a web server (probably OWIN based) and presents a web UI and perhaps a handful of RESTful web methods as a trial. Not sure whether I’ll go with react or angular 2 for this. Stay tuned…<\/p>\n
Oh…also picked up ‘Learning Bootstrap 4, Second Edition<\/a>‘ to read a bit more about bootstrap along the way. The Amazon web UI framework was bootstrap derived I believe so I expect this to\u00a0 be somewhat familiar…<\/em><\/p>\n I am looking at self-hosting partly because node doesn’t play as nicely with windows as it does with linux and I’m mostly windows based. It is also rather nice to have a one-stop simple web UI hosting option that can get access to native code as needed. The NSSM <\/a>package seems as if it provides a reasonable way to host something like node as a boot time startup service…I’ll probably play with that at some point.<\/em><\/p>\n Interesting…there is a package manager for windows called ‘Chocolatey<\/a>‘ that seems to be an option for deploying NSSM…\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Functional and Haskell I’ve been reading through the Haskell book I bought (the C# functional programming book isn’t here yet). So far, Haskell functional programming still looks like a gimmick more than a set of useful tools. I’ll keep reading through to the end and likely play with the language a little before I’m done. … Continue reading More Functional Programming and some MERN<\/span>