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ReasonML Quick Start Guide

ReasonML Quick Start Guide

By : Rafatpanah, Joseph D'mello
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ReasonML Quick Start Guide

ReasonML Quick Start Guide

By: Rafatpanah, Joseph D'mello

Overview of this book

ReasonML, also known as Reason, is a new syntax and toolchain for OCaml that was created by Facebook and is meant to be approachable for web developers. Although OCaml has several resources, most of them are from the perspective of systems development. This book, alternatively, explores Reason from the perspective of web development. You'll learn how to use Reason to build safer, simpler React applications and why you would want to do so. Reason supports immutability by default, which works quite well in the context of React. In learning Reason, you will also learn about its ecosystem – BuckleScript, JavaScript interoperability, and various npm workflows. We learn by building a real-world app shell, including a client-side router with page transitions, that we can customize for any Reason project. You'll learn how to leverage OCaml's excellent type system to enforce guarantees about business logic, as well as preventing runtime type errors.You'll also see how the type system can help offload concerns that we once had to keep in our heads. We'll explore using CSS-in-Reason, how to use external JSON in Reason, and how to unit-test critical business logic. By the end of the book, you'll understand why Reason is exploding in popularity and will have a solid foundation on which to continue your journey with Reason.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Using bs-css

While there is no official recommendation from the Reason team for a CSS-in-JS solution, many are currently using a library called bs-css that wraps the emotion CSS-in-JS library (version 9). The bs-css library provides a type-safe API for use in Reason. With this approach, we can have the compiler check our CSS as well. We'll get a feel for this library by converting our App.scss, which we created in Chapter 3, Creating ReasonReact Components.

To follow along, clone this book's GitHub repository and start from Chapter06/app-start using the following code:

git clone https://github.com/PacktPublishing/ReasonML-Quick-Start-Guide.git
cd ReasonML-Quick-Start-Guide
cd Chapter06/app-start
npm install

To get started with bs-css, we'll include it as a dependency for both package.json and bsconfig.json as follows:

/* bsconfig.json */
...
"bs-dependencies&quot...

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