Awesome ReasonML

A collection of awesome things regarding Reason/OCaml ecosystem. Inspired by the awesome list thing. Feel free to improve this list.

• Reason
  • General Resources
  • Melange
  • Starter Kits
  • Tutorials
  • Talks
  • Tools
  • Libraries
    • Standard Libs
    • Web
    • JSON encoding and decoding
    • Server
    • Testing
    • GraphQL
  • Editor Plugins
• Example Apps
• Contribution

Reason

General Resources

• Documentation
• Homepage
• Blog
• Reason Github
• Reason Twitter
• Discord Community

Melange

• Homepage
• Melange documentation
• Melange Playground
• Reason Playground
• Reason package index
• Melange for React Devs

Starter Kits

• create-melange-app
• Melange Project template with opam
• Melange Project template with esy
• Example Project
• Reason Starter kit for Advent of Code

Tutorials

• Melange for React Devs
• An Invitation to ReasonML
• Armed with Reason - Target Raspberry PI
• Intro to Reason Compilation
• Exploring ReasonML
• Build Tic-Tac-Toe with ReasonML
• Get Started with Reason (Free Video Course)
• Build a Simon Game in ReasonReact
• Implement a chart layout algorithm in ReasonML

ReasonReact

• A First ReasonReact App for JS Developers
• A ReasonReact Tutorial
• Another ReasonReact Tutorial for Beginners

Talks

• 2024/03 - @dillon_mulroy - Frontrunners - Melange: The Next Frontier in Type-Safe Web Development
• 2023/08 - @davesnx - React Alicante - Server side rendering React natively with Reason
• 2019/09 - @flaviocorpa - LambdAle - What happens if you let the creator of React design a programming language
• 2019/08 - @jordwalke - ReasonConf US - React to the Future
• 2018/05 – @cristianoc – React Europe – ReasonReact and local state
• 2017/11 - @sgrove - Finding joy in programming
• 2017/10 - @bassjacob - Universal Reason
• 2017 06 – @bassjacob – Node.ninjas Sydney – Everything happens for a Reason
• 2017/05 – @chenglou – React Europe – Imperfection
• 2017/05 – @chenglou – React London – What's in a language?
• 2017/04 – @chenglou – React Conf – Taming the Meta Language
• 2016 Phil Holden - Reason slides
• 2016/11 - @sgrove - Age of Reason + slides
• 2016/11 - @ferakpeter - How to build your first Reason App/ - slides
• 2016 - Dawn of Reason - Sander Spies slides
• 2016/07 - @sgrove - From Unikernels to Databases to UIs: Truly full-stack apps in OCaml

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Tools

• opam - OCaml Package Manager
• dune - Dune is a build system for OCaml projects. Using it, you can build executables, libraries, run tests, and much more
• Vite plugin - A Vite plugin for Melange
• reason-tools - Chrome/Firefox Reason extension
• RED - Native Reason/OCaml debugger
• type-o-rama - JS type systems interportability

Libraries

Standard Libs

• Belt - A stdlib shipped with Melange.
• Js - Bindings to several browser and Node JavaScript APIs
• tablecloth - An ergonomic, cross-platform, standard library for ReasonML and OCaml
• relude - FP-inspired prelude/standard library for ReasonML projects.
• Rationale - Ramda inspired library of helper functions for ReasonML

Web

• reason-react - React.js bindings
• promise - Light and type-safe binding to JS promises
• styled-ppx - Type-safe styled components for ReScript, Melange and native with type-safe CSS
• melange-fetch - Fetch bindings for Melange

JSON encoding and decoding

• melange-json - Compositional JSON encode/decode library for Melange
• ocaml-decoders - Elm-inspired decoders for Ocaml
• atd - Static types for JSON APIs
• bs-decode - Type-safe JSON decoding for ReasonML and OCaml (documentation site)

Server

• Dream - Tidy, feature-complete Web framework
• html_of_jsx - Render HTML with JSX
• server-reason-react - Server render Reason React components with OCaml natively

GraphQL

• reasonql - Type-safe and simple GraphQL client for ReasonML
• graphql_ppx - GraphQL PPX rewriter for Bucklescript/ReasonML written in ReasonML.
• melange-relay - Use Relay with ReasonML

Testing

• melange-fest - A minimal test framework for Melange using Node test runner
• melange-jest - Melange bindings for Jest
• melange-testing-library - Melange bindings for testing-library (dom-testing-library and react-testing-library)

Editor Plugins

See the official guide here

• vscode-ocaml-platform - Visual Studio Code extension for ReasonML and OCaml
• ocaml-lsp - OCaml Language Server Protocol implementation

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Example Apps

• Reason Catstagram - A Catstagram built with Reason and React hooks!
• ReasonReact example - ReasonReact examples
• ReasonReact Hacker News - Hacker News written in Reason
• Mareo - Online Mario game demo drawn on canvas
• Reason Maze - Amazing online maze generation
• ReLayout - Standalone CSS Flexbox Implementation in Reason
• Red - Simple to use pomodoro webapp
• Si - A 3D connect four game
• 99.re - Solutions to 99 problems implemented in Reason
• Gravitron - A game about gravity on iOS/Android/Browser
• Reason Game of Life - Conway's Game of Life written in Reason using ReasonReact. (demo)
• 2048 Reasons - A functional implementation of the viral 2048 game in Reason using ReasonReact. (demo)
• ReasonML RealWorld example app - Medium.com clone written using ReasonReact
• ReasonML RealWorld example app #2 - Another Medium.com clone written using ReasonReact
• re:bench - Benchmarking playground built with ReasonReact. A real app in real use.
• TicTacToe ReasonML engine - Minimax Tic-Tac-Toe implementation in ReasonML
• reason-chess - Chess engine for multiple platforms and web example chess game. (demo)
• Repos - Fetches Github repos by username
• Re-Memory - Memory game in ReasonReact
• Another memory cards game - Memory cards game with GIFs (demo)
• Reason Reversi Game - Reversi Game in ReasonReact
• Snake - Snake game in ReasonReact (demo)
• ReasonML CRUD example - RealWorld CRUD entity example
• Dokusho - CRUD example with authentication, react toolbox, and CI.
• A* pathfinder maze - A* search algorithm written in ReasonML (demo)
• Reatris: ReasonReact tetris - Classic tetris game written on ReasonReact (demo)
• ReasonSplash - Unsplash mobile client in Reason
• Simple Calculator - It's another calculator written on ReasonReact (demo)
• Bouken - ASCII rogue written using ReasonReact. (demo)
• Simon Game - The handheld Simon game written in ReasonReact
• We Write - the App utilizes Github API as the backend, so non-tech writers could collaborate
• Coronate - A Swiss-style chess tournament manager for the web and desktop, written with ReasonReact. (web demo)
• Pomodoro - A pomodoro webapp written in ReasonReact, using webpack, and fully tested with bs-react-testing-library and reason-hooks-testing-library. (demo)

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Contribution

Your contributions and suggestions are heartily♡ welcome. (✿◠‿◠)

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License