Fast, Bare, Rescript React (2022)

May 7, 2022 in Programming, Learning, Rescript

(Original published September 30, 2021. Updated May 7, 2022)

Introduction

Most of my Rescript series so far has been about combining Rescript with React using create-react-app. Now that I understand Rescript better, I’m not so sure create-react-app is a good fit for it.

Mostly because it’s slow. Rescript compiles JSX natively, so we shouldn’t need slow and hard-to-configure webpack. Most of create-react-app is about hiding the configuration of webpack from the end-user. I appreciate that. I’ve wasted more hours on webpack configuration than I care to count. But not having webpack is even better than hiding it!

Fast, Bare, Rescript React

September 30, 2021 in Programming, Learning, Rescript

Introduction

(Note: There is a more recent version of this article)

Most of my Rescript series so far has been about combining Rescript with React using create-react-app. Now that I understand Rescript better, I’m not so sure create-react-app is a good fit for it.

Mostly because it’s slow. Rescript compiles JSX natively, so we shouldn’t need slow and hard-to-configure webpack. Most of create-react-app is about hiding the configuration of webpack from the end-user. I appreciate that. I’ve wasted more hours on webpack configuration than I care to count. But not having webpack is even better than hiding it!

Let's Talk About Functors In Rescript

September 18, 2021 in Programming, Learning, Rescript

Introduction

For basic syntax, functional programming does not feel that different from other paradigms. Sure, data and behaviour are separate, so you don’t have classes or objects or inheritance, but it feels relatively the same. This is especially true in Rescript, with the pipe-first syntax almost looking like a method lookup (comparable to the self object in Python).

But if you go deeply into a study of functional languages, you start encountering bizarre words such as “monad” and “functor”. Again, this is less true in Rescript, which emphasizes pragmatism over purity. Indeed, if you search the rescript documentation for “monad”, it will come up blank, and if you search for “Functor” you get a fairly short section that almost feels like an afterthought.

Fast, Bare, Rescript React (2022)

Introduction

Fast, Bare, Rescript React

Introduction

Let's Talk About Functors In Rescript

Introduction

Dusty Phillips