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Wonka is a lightweight iterable and observable library loosely based on the callbag spec. It exposes a set of helpers to create streams, which are sources of multiple values, which allow you to create, transform and consume event streams or iterable sets of data.
Wonka is a library for streams and iterables that behaves predictably and can be used for many problems where you're dealing with streams of values, asynchronous or not.
It's similar to RxJS in that it enables asynchronous programming with observable streams, with an API that looks like functional programming on iterables, but it's also similar to IxJS since Wonka streams will run synchronously if an iterable source runs synchronously.
It also comes with many operators that users from RxJS will be used to.
Wonka used to be written in Reason,, a dialect of OCaml, and was usable
for native development and compileable with BuckleScript.
Out of the box it supported usage with BuckleScript, bs-native, Dune, and Esy.
If you're looking for the legacy version that supported this, you may want to install v4 or v5 rather than v6 onwards, which converted the project to TypeScript.
As mentioned in the prior section, Wonka supports not one but a couple of environments and languages. To accommodate for this, most of the docs are written with examples and sections for TypeScript and Reason.
We don't provide examples in most parts of the docs for Flow and OCaml because their respective usage is almost identical to TypeScript and Reason, so for the most part the examples mostly deal with the differences between a TypeScript and a Reason project.