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Alternatives: Elm, Purescript, etc.
Edit: I recommend stopping and thinking a bit about ethics of technology choices before reactively downvoting.
Honest question: why would someone use this instead of React? From my point of view, React solved a real problem. JS before React (at least old-skool, with jQuery & co.) was simply unmaintainable. It was often easier to thow old projects away and start anew than to maintain what inevitably became a tangled mess of callbacks and global variables. Not because of incompetency of developers (at least I hope so ;) but bec…
Here is the official React binding (or whatever you call it) for ReasonML: https://reasonml.github.io/reason-react/
Using this you would still be using React, just in a different language. But my understanding is that you would not be using redux (if you are now) because it doesn't make sense in a language like ReasonML.
Honest question: why would someone use this instead of React? From my point of view, React solved a real problem. JS before React (at least old-skool, with jQuery & co.) was simply unmaintainable. It was often easier to thow old projects away and start anew than to maintain what inevitably became a tangled mess of callbacks and global variables. Not because of incompetency of developers (at least I hope so ;) but bec…
Because React is a very natural fit for a functional language of which JS really isn’t. Which is also why it is so lovely to use React from Clojurescript.
Honest question: why would someone use this instead of React? From my point of view, React solved a real problem. JS before React (at least old-skool, with jQuery & co.) was simply unmaintainable. It was often easier to thow old projects away and start anew than to maintain what inevitably became a tangled mess of callbacks and global variables. Not because of incompetency of developers (at least I hope so ;) but bec…
- Frontend: Your tools are fast. The ReasonML-to-JS compiler is already an order of magnitude faster that TypeScript, etc. Fastpack is a native bundler in the works that aims to bundle your project in under a second (and faster for incremental builds).
- Mobile & Desktop: Some are experimenting right now with writing a version of React in pure Reason that compiles to native code, bypassing the JavaScript runtime entirely.
- Backend: You'll be able to use the Node.js ecosystem but compile certain modules to native code when you need critical performance.
Edit: I should add, the Node.js backend story is currently the least developed part of the ecosystem (I'm personally working on getting that up to speed).
But can it app?
Using Facebook's software supports Facebook. I think the industry should move away from that instead of adopting more of their technology. Programmers should start considering these things. Alternatives: Elm, Purescript, etc. Edit: I recommend stopping and thinking a bit about ethics of technology choices before reactively downvoting.
I'm always confused by statements like "You don't need Redux, you have reducer components". Reducer components don't solve the problem of a centralized/shared/common state and interactions between components.
We've been converting a large JS react app to Reason, and strongly typed props solves a lot of problems. Passing props down multiple children is no longer a burden, and you'll never have that "prop spreading madness". For anything that reaaally requires some sort of global state, you can use the new react context api.
The only danger of writing in reasonml is spoiling javascript for yourself
I'm reminded of the Hacker News post that introduced me to React from David Nolen back in 2013, where he first introduced ClojureScript's take on React, Om: http://swannodette.github.io/2013/12/17/the-future-of-javasc... Interested to take this for a spin.
Om isn't so much a take on React as it is a take on the state management layer and it uses React under the covers. I believe it's been largely superseded by re-frame [1], which follows the Redux / TEA model. There is an Om Next and that's basically a take on Falcor / Relay using the Datomic pull syntax but I haven't heard that much about it outside the talks where he was announcing it. [1] https://github.com/Day8/re-…