In a previous post I have written about Giraffe and shown some workarounds for what I perceived as limitations considering my existing enterprise ecosystem.

Now that Giraffe has turned 3.0 loads of things have improved even from my perspective. Obviously they are now competing in performance benchmarks, so loads of optimisation work has happened behind the scenes. For me, though – the most interesting bit is to see how they dealt with my complaints.

Configuration, logging and service location is now available through extension methods on the context.

Response handlers now handle streams and chunked responses.

Content negotiation looks very clean.

We have of course welcomed these improvements and use them in all our F# APIs.

The only remaining complaint is that the Swagger support is still not usable enough for our purposes. The fact that we would have to configure an additional separate nuget source onto get the package prevents us from actually using it in anger although showing API actions was simple enough but I’m unclear as to how to document request and response payloads – but that only becomes worth exploring when the package is served from nuget.org