Learning ReScript with a practical example.
The most non-JavaScript-way to write JavaScript.
ReScript is the language for folks who don't necessarily love JavaScript, but who still acknowledge its importance. - ReScript Introduction
2021. 07.17
- No official DOM APIs. Only types.
- Immature VSCode extension. It asks me to rebuild every time I load each
.resfile. - Documentations are great but still hard to figure out how to integrate ReScript into the existing projects.
- Unlike other superset languages, ReScript offers less syntax and compiles to human-readable, well-written, performant JavaScript. And here is a question. What is the purpose of human-readable artifacts? ReScript team says anyone who knows JavaScript can directly modify the outputs when there is an emergency situation. Doesn't make sense. ReScript should be a single source of truth, and loosing sync between the source and built one may cause a big problem.
- ReScript is not for experienced JavaScript programmers.
- ReScript team recommends to compile in-source. It's really messy.
- Too frequent rebrandings. Reason, BuckleScript, ReScript. Still too many
bsprefix. It's confusing.
npm installnpm run re:devnpm run devRun two scripts sequentially at the same time. You can use tools like concurrently, npm-run-all, or just use two shells.
npm run build