teyc/fs-bookmarker

CLI to bookmark urls

#fs-bookmarker

What it is

fs-bookmarker is a command line program for bookmarking websites.

It's written as an exercise for me to familiarise myself with the F# toolchain, namely VSCode, Paket and the fsproj format.

Usage

Example of how to add a bookmark

fs-bookmarker.exe add <url> [tag1] [tag2] ...
.\build\fs-bookmarker.exe add http://www.priceintelligently.com/blog/david-cancel-saas-companies-customer-first-business-growth marketing saas

Bookmarks are written to bookmarks.txt like this

("David Cancel: Why Half of All SaaS Companies Will Go Out of Business",
"http://www.priceintelligently.com/blog/david-cancel-saas-companies-customer-first-business-growth",
[|"marketing"; "saas"|])

Key learnings

1. Add nuget packages using Paket instead of using VS Code

   paket add nuget Hopac project fs-bookmarker\fs-bookmarker.fsproj

   otherwise, you will have to manually add them to the fsproj yourself. Using paket has the added benefit of having the correct version of the lib added to each TFM (target framework moniker.)

2. This version of Paket.exe doesn't seem to have the CopyRuntimeDependencies task defined. I had to manually delete it from the fsproj file before it would build.

3. It was difficult to get the build.cmd to run at first. I kept getting Target "" not found. In the end retyping the last line one build.fsx resolved the problem.

4. Set up tasks.json with a task name called Build. VS Code likes it that way.