Jsoo approach to react / gui

[yawaramin]

You might find these previous threads interesting:

Jsoo, production use and user facing applications questions

summarizing findings: js_of_ocaml deals with just that - generating js of ocaml; javascript imports and interop is possible through creating bindings to js code you can still pass the output of jsoo to the standard javascript build pipelines (including webpack), for example: Create bindings for JS library · Issue #718 · ocsigen/js_of_ocaml · GitHub I couldn’t find any more complete and more complex examples like using css modules or internationalization, that require “coordination” between b…

Compiling Bonsai

Hi all, I’d like to try Bonsai to develop a web frontend, since I gave up hope of using Reason and related ecosystem. The version present in opam (v0.14.0) has no examples, while the master on GitHub seems much more complete in that sense but I failed to compile the library because it relies on library not present in opam or versions not released yet. So I created a new switch and pinned all the relevant dev-repo but still no success. For example I can’t find any “1.0.6+newsyntax” version of g…

Tutorial: Full-Stack Web Dev in OCaml w/ Dream, Bonsai, and GraphQL

Hi everyone! I’ve written a tutorial blog series about full-stack web development in OCaml, and wanted to share it here. Last semester, I took Penn State’s CMPSC 431W, where our final project was to build a database-driven web application. Since I’m fairly familiar with web programming through my work on Flarum and past internships/side projects, I decided to use this opportunity to explore the OCaml web development ecosystem. I used Dream for the backend, and Bonsai for the frontend. While wo…