Reason Bootcamp
@VladimirNovick
GDE & Independent Consultant
Web / Mobile / VR / AR / IoT
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Reason lets you write simple, fast and quality type-safe code while leveraging both the JavaScript & OCaml ecosystems.
A functional programming language with Hindley–Milner type system
Can be compiled to bytecode, native code or JS
Reason syntax is very familiar to JS
general purpose programming language (1996)
Facebook is using it in several projects (Flow)
Performance and compilation time is blazing fast
Why Ocaml
Amazing community
If it compiles - it works
A language for writing React (first React prototypes were in SML)
Side effects and other escape hatches
Amazing tooling in the language itself
Agenda - Day1
- Values & Types
- Bindings
- Scopes
- Tuples
- Records
- Variants
- Pattern Matching
Agenda - Day2
- Recap
- Ocaml sdlib
- Arrays & Lists
- Functions
- Modules
Agenda - Day3
- Recap
- Modules advanced
- Functors
- JS Interop and FFI
- Bucklescript
Agenda - Day4
- Recap
- Continue with Bucklescript
- Bucklescript build system
- Writing bindings for libraries
- ReasonReact
- Leftovers and further learning
{ Show me some code }!
It's time for some homework
Tweet your solutions at me @VladimirNovick
Snippets: https://goo.gl/MhwEG4
Bootcamp repo with all demos
Thank You
@VladimirNovick