Compile OCaml to JavaScript, use ReactJS, bindings to ReactJS, several examples

Post by e_d_g_a_r » Wed, Jul 27, 2016, 2:18 AM UTC

Post by e_d_g_a_r » Wed, Jul 27, 2016, 4:21 AM UTC

magnumkarter wrote: post #3

e_d_g_a_r wrote: post #2

opam version is a little bit behind curve, use `opam pin add -y reactjs git@github.com:fxfactorial/ocaml-reactjs.git`

I've been learning OCaml and hoped I could find something like this. Thank you.

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jul 27, 2016, 5:03 AM UTC

Post by rajington » Wed, Jul 27, 2016, 5:08 AM UTC

Scarbutt wrote: post #7

btown wrote: post #5

For those interested in this, https://github.com/bloomberg/bucklescript is an alternate (albeit new) OCaml to JS compiler. There's already talk about supporting JSX syntax: https://github.com/bloomberg/bucklescript/issues/162

Differences from js_of_ocaml (not an easy find) Js_of_ocaml takes lowlevel bytecode from OCaml compiler, BuckleScript takes the highlevel rawlambda representation from OCaml compiler Js_of_ocaml focuses more on existing OCaml eco-system(opam) while BuckleScript's major goal is to target npm Js_of_ocaml and BuckleScript have slightly different runtime encoding in several places, for example, BuckleScript encodes OCaml…

Post by rajington » Wed, Jul 27, 2016, 5:31 AM UTC

e_d_g_a_r wrote: post #9

rajington wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven't really gotten into much ML yet, and I'm curious to hear what people knowledgeable with OCaml think about http://facebook.github.io/reason/ The name makes it impossible to research to find any blog posts or anything, but the familiar syntax alone might make it at least a first step for me.

Speaking for myself, I think Reason is a very good thing and rewriting this in Reason or adding a Reason layer is a goal/TODO.