Reason

Simple, fast & type safe code that leverages the JavaScript & OCaml ecosystems

Contributing

Documentations

Go to https://github.com/reasonml/reasonml.github.io to contribute to the Reason documentation.

Codebase

Installation for Programmatic Usage

If you're not using Reason programmatically, disregard this section and see the Getting Started guide above. This is for using Reason's refmt as a third-party library.

JavaScript API

We expose a refmt.js for you to use on the web. Again, for local development, please use the native refmt that comes with the installation here. It's an order of magnitude faster than the JS version. Don't use the JS version unless you know what you're doing. Let's keep our ecosystem fast please.

Aaaanyways, to install refmt.js: npm install reason. Here's the API:

parseRE(codeString): returns an AST + comments info that you'd use for printing
parseREI(codeString): same, but for interface
printRE(astAndComments): receives the data structure returned by parseRE and others
printREI(astAndComments): same, but for interface
parseML(codeString), parseMLI(codeString), printML(astAndComments), printMLI(astAndComments): the OCaml syntax counterparts.

The parse* functions potentially throw an error of this shape:

{
  message: string,
  // location can be undefined
  location: {
    // all 1-indexed
    startLine: number, // inclusive
    startLineStartChar: number, // inclusive
    endLine: number, // inclusive
    endLineEndChar: number, // **exclusive**
  }
}

Example usage:

const refmt = require('refmt')
// convert the ocaml syntax to reason syntax
console.log(refmt.printRE(refmt.parseML('let f a = 1')))

refmt.js is minified for you through Closure Compiler, with an accompanying refmt.map. The size is 2.3MB but don't get fooled; it gzips down to just 345KB. This way, you can carry it around in your own blog and use it to create interactive refmt playground, without worrying about imposing bandwidth overhead to your readers. Again, keep our ecosystem fast and lean.

Native API

We're spoiled with more APIs on the native side. To use Reason from OPAM as a native library, you have these functions. So:

Reason_toolchain.RE.implementation_with_comments
Reason_toolchain.RE.interface_with_comments
Reason_toolchain.RE.print_interface_with_comments
Reason_toolchain.ML.implementation_with_comments
etc.

The RE parsing functions might throw this (docs on Location.t here). The ML parsing functions might throw Syntaxerr.Error error.

Example usage:

let ast_and_comments =
  Lexing.from_string "let f a => 1"
  |> Reason_toolchain.RE.implementation_with_comments

(* Convert Reason back to OCaml syntax. That'll show these Reason users! *)
let ocaml_syntax =
  Reason_toolchain.ML.print_implementation_with_comments
    Format.str_formatter
    ast_and_comments;
  Format.flush_str_formatter ()

License

See Reason license in LICENSE.txt.

Works that are forked from other projects are under their original licenses.

Credit

The general structure of refmt repo was copied from whitequark's m17n project, including parts of the README that instruct how to use this with the OPAM toolchain. Thank you OCaml!

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