Reasonml + Reactjs experimentation

I tried three different ways of using react from reason.

1. direct port, lots of js munging
2. functional style

Two options: jsoo & bucklescript

• js_of_ocaml is the more established player, and more things know about & support it (such as the jengaboot build system)
• bucklescript is newer, more shiny, generates dramatically better javascript, and has much prettier documentation :)

I present both for comparison, but I'll mostly be investing in bucklescript for the moment.

General setup

I recommend starting a new opam switch, via ex opam switch -A system reason (reason is the name of our new environment).

Then run ./install_reason.sh to install the opam packages for reason.

NOTE: I think there's a better way to do this (there's an npm package?) but I haven't gotten there yet.

Other dependencies:

• npm install -g watch
• opam pin add -y BetterErrors https://github.com/chenglou/BetterErrors.git

Bucklescript

cd buckle && npm install

JS_OF_OCAML

cd jsoo && ./setup_opam.sh && npm install

Hacking

Go to the subdirectory of your choice

• webpack --watch
• watch make src --wait=.1 --interval=.1

Now it will recompile js + webpack whenever you change things!

Go ahead and open index.html in your favorite browser to see the fruits of your labors!