Expense recorder application

The application demonstrates what can be accomplished in 30-40 hours with SAFE stack with a very basic knowledge of the SAFE. Application features:

• Giraffe based backend
• using Postgres with F# Data Providers for persisting app data
• simplistic REST Api
• authentication and authorization
• sharing F# code between client and server to ensure contracts
• client routing to ensure application is navigation friendly
• Fulma to build nice looking UI with a very basic HTML design skills

I would love to use some newer things to simplify say client-server communication (kudos to Zaid Ajaj) but I was asked to expose REST Api.

Install pre-requisites

You'll need to install the following pre-requisites in order to build SAFE applications:

• The .NET Core SDK 3 or newer
• install tools by running dotnet tool restore in the project folder
• The Yarn package manager (you can also use npm but the usage of yarn is encouraged).
• Node LTS installed for the front end components.

How to build

• setup local Postgresql and roll out "expenses" database
• restore database schema by running psql -d expenses -a -f create-db.sql from src/server folder
• correct connection settings in src/server/DataAccess.fs
• build using dotnet fake build command line

Now you could run the application:

cd src/server
dotnet run

• now navigate to [http://localhost:8085]
• if the database is new connect under admin/<pwd>, where pwd is some number you can find in server logs

fake build target Run starts development mode.