reactor - React OCaml Runtime

WARNING: EXPERIMENTAL, DO NOT USE

This repository hosts the following packages:

• react - a native OCaml implementation of the server side component for the React.js library.

  More specifically it implements Server Side Rendering (SSR) and React Server Components (RSC) which is interoperable with React.js, supporting Suspense.

• react_dream - a thin layer of code to integrate react with dream.

• remote - a data fetching library with request caching and deduplication, which works with SSR (fetched payload is being to transfered to client so no it doesn't have to be refetched).

• realm - a compatibility layer for code written to be compiled both native OCaml toolchain and Melange.

Run example apps

The example/ directory contains a few example apps:

• make build react-example-server-only showcases React Server Components rendered on server to HTML and no hydration on client is performed (means no JS is needed). One can consier React being a fancy template engine in this case.

• make build react-example-rsc showcases React Server Components which render on server to JSON model and then on client the JSON model is rendered to HTML, invoking the client components.

• make build react-example-rsc-ssr showcases React Server Components which render on server to HTML, emitting JSON model along. On client the JSON model is being used to hydrate the server rendered HTML.

All the examples feature typesafe routing with ppx_deriving_router and data fetching with remote.