Up to date reason npm package

[baransu]

The latest npm reason package version is 3.3.4 which is over a years old. We want to use it for reformatting between Reason and OCaml syntax and would be great to have access to up to date refmt version. Is there any reason why the package is not updated with every new release?

[ryyppy]

Now that I understand the vendoring process I can give more context:
The bspack.exe has been removed from recent bs-platform releases, which now blocks Reason's bspacks scripts to create a single refmtJS.ml bundle and run a build for refmt.js.

This apparently happened around 1 year ago I assume.

[thangngoc89]

@ryyppy this isn't true. You don't need bspack to produce refmt.js . Probably just lacks of man-power

[ryyppy]

This is either solved by merging #2495 (opam based), or finishing work in #2153 (esy based)

[jchavarri]

@thangngoc89 You mean refmt.js could be produced using a regular dune + jsoo setup? How would bucklescript compilation work? (side note: I always thought bspack was created originally because BS was a fork of OCaml and so could not be compiled with regular build tooling, but maybe that assumption is false and that's why I'm confused).

cc @ulrikstrid as we've been discussing about bspack stuff lately :)

[thangngoc89]

@jchavarri refmt.js has been always produced by jsoo. Adding bspack into that is just noisy and more complexities for no reasons at all. bspack is for vendoring to bucklescript only

[jchavarri]

You mean refmt.js could be produced using a regular dune + jsoo setup?

So the answer to that is yes?

[thangngoc89]

Yes. refmt.js SHOULD be produce by a regular dune + jsoo setup

[anmonteiro]

We don’t release to NPM anymore