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ReasonML - The Future of React 💯

ReasonML - The Future of React 💯

ReasonML is a new language and way to build not just websites powered by ReactJS, but powers a whole new ecosystem of utilization. Electron apps, CLIs, VM-based servers and any application JavaScript currently has can be improved using ReasonML. Build native CLI tools that are fast. Build native MacOS apps that don’t have to require all of Chrome and a 100mb min bundle size. Run your ReasonML apps on bare metal!

Peter Piekarczyk

June 29, 2019
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  1. ReasonML
    The Future of React
    Peter Piekarczyk

    Co-founder, Draftbit

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  2. PIES • CARS • CHICKS

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  6. Peter Piekarczyk
    •Y Combinator Alumn
    •Huge Expo / React Native Fan
    •Loves Plants (@petersplantss)
    •Loves Cycling
    •Loves ReasonML
    •Co-Founder of Draftbit

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  7. Draftbit helps your
    team build mobile apps
    visually

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  8. 1. Scan QR Code
    2. Drag Component
    3. Export Code

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  11. Layers (Js)
    Frame
    (Yoga / Wasm / Reason)
    Cong
    (JS / Reason)
    Live Preview / Code Gen
    (Reason)
    Navigator
    (Reason)

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  12. Early days at a startup are…
    hard

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  13. Draftbit needed to move
    faster to survive

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  15. We gave Reason a shot
    & never looked back

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  16. Draftbit Stack
    • React & ReasonML
    • Web Assembly
    • Expo
    • GraphQL & Apollo
    • Postgres

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  17. We used to start with
    Javascript

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  19. “Hey Peter…”

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  20. “I think I broke
    something…”

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  21. 15 min & 10
    console.log’s later…

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  22. Config.apiUrl

    vs.

    Cong.apiURL

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  23. Life Before 2015
    Backbone
    Angular
    RequireJS
    jQuery
    Bower
    Gulp MVC
    CoffeeScript

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  25. Life After 2015
    Flowtype
    Eslint
    Babel
    Typescript
    Redux Yarn
    Prettier
    React
    Immutable

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  27. What do you get
    when you take
    all that shit

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  28. & make it easy?

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  29. You get Reason

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  31. • Created by React creator
    • Familiar Javascript syntax
    • Battle-tested language
    • Friendly compiler
    • Multiple compile targets

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  32. What language was
    React originally
    written in?

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  33. StandardML

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  34. What is Reason?

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  35. Javascript as a
    statically typed,

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  36. functional language,
    with a friendly
    compiler

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  37. & amazing developer
    productivity

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  38. If it compiles,
    it works

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  39. What is OCaml?

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  40. A functional
    programming language

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  41. With twenty years of
    type theory,

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  42. Powerful pattern
    matching, functions

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  43. & a robust ecosystem
    of packages (OPAM)

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  44. • Compiles >10x faster than Babel
    • Eliminates typical JS errors
    • Easy to use within your existing JS app
    • Compiled code is easy to debug

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  45. Fast AF Compile Times
    TypeScript
    Scala

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  46. CRA 3.0 REASON

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  49. What does a React
    component look like?

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  51. Similar, but a little
    different, right?

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  53. All your jsx is typed

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  54. Why is this valuable?

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  55. Because uncertainty is
    the devil

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  56. We all know what
    uncertainty is already
    like …

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  57. Web Developer

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  59. Pipe First makes it easy
    to read composable
    functions

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  63. [1, 2, 3] is a List

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  64. Lists are immutable,
    homogeneous & fast AF

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  66. Belt is the standard library
    shipped with Reason

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  67. A built-in lodash just
    for Reason

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  69. Convert your immutable
    list into an array

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  71. Convert your array
    into a React element

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  72. *both Lists & Arrays are
    supported

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  73. Hooks are the future

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  74. Have you heard
    about Hooks?

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  76. Tuples are immutable,
    ordered &
    heterogeneous

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  80. Pattern matching is a
    switch statement on
    steroids

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  83. Why is Tick
    capitalized?

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  84. Tick is not a string, its a
    constructor

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  86. Variants offer a powerful
    way of representing
    complex data

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  87. Variants allow you to
    express this OR that

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  89. Constructors can take
    arguments, too!

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  92. genType generates
    bindings between
    Reason & JavaScript

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  94. genType supports
    Typescript & Flowtype

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  96. Can I use my existing
    Javascript components
    in Reason?

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  99. **This part kinda sucks,
    but will be automated
    soon ☺

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  101. How do I add Reason to
    my Javascript project?

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  102. 1. yarn add bs-platform —dev
    2. add bscong.json
    3. add script tags

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  104. ReasonML

    (.re, .rei)
    OCaml

    (.ml, .mli)
    OCaml AST
    Bytecode Native code JavaScript

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  105. BuckleScript

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  106. Write safer, simple,
    readable code that
    compiles to JavaScript

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  107. The compiled
    JavaScript is readable

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  112. The compiled
    JavaScript is faster

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  113. ImmutableJS Map
    3415ms

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  114. Reason Immutable Map
    1186ms

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  115. Tree Shaking is %

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  116. Webpack
    55,000 Bytes

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  117. Bucklescript
    899 Bytes

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  119. BuckleScript has a deep
    integration with JS libs

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  120. Binding Javascript
    to Reason

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  122. *Getting this right
    is the hardest part

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  123. There are bindings for
    almost every library

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  125. Is Reason ready
    for production?

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  127. Companies Shipping Reason

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  128. (& many more)

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  129. *These companies
    aren’t startups, they’re
    BIG businesses

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  130. messenger.com is
    completely written in
    Reason

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  132. Where can I
    learn more?

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  133. Your local
    ReasonML Meetup

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  134. ReasonML Discord
    Google it

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  135. Reason Conf US
    Chicago • October 8th 2019

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  136. Keynote by Jordan Walke
    Creator of React

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  137. https:/
    /reason-conf.us

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  139. Don’t be
    that person

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  141. BAEs
    BEST. AUDIENCE. EVER.
    draftbit.com/reason
    draftbit • peterpme

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