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While there's a thread on F#, I'd like to complain about how I attempted to create/publish a F# dotnet app in entirely using the terminal (i.e. without the bloat of Visual Studio) and it doesn't seem to be supported, which was unfortunate.

  dotnet new webapp -lang F# -o MyFSharpWebApp -f net8.0

was the command I used. This was in Windows 10. I'll probably attempt it again in WSL2 when I have time, though I'm not expecting better results.

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This is, unfortunately, a consequence of the annoying naming Microsoft does (I am allowed to complain about this because I worked on the .NET team -- nobody can name things we can't).

You'll note that in the list of default templates:

ASP.NET Core Empty web [C#],F# Web/Empty

ASP.NET Core gR... grpc [C#] Web/gRPC

ASP.NET Core We... webapi [C#],F# Web/WebAPI

ASP.NET Core We... webapp,razor [C#] Web/MVC/Razor Pages

ASP.NET Core We... mvc [C#],F# Web/MVC

ASP.NET Core wi... angular [C#] Web/MVC/SPA

ASP.NET Core wi... react [C#] Web/MVC/SPA

"webapp" is actually a flavor of MVC with Razor Pages to define the UI, which is itself a flavor of UI that's different from the typical HTML/JS/react setup most people use.

I think the cleanest way to do web development with .NET is to leave .NET-isms out of the UI (.NET UI is, ironically, its weakest link now) and keep it on the server.

The templates are all listed at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/dotnet-n... . You picked a template that is indeed not supported in F#; the F# ecosystem is generally oriented more around the SAFE stack and Fable.

> dotnet new list

Shows all the available templates - you could give mvc or web a try?

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