Reason Workshop @ReactiveConf 2017

by: Sean Grove, Jared Forsyth, Daniel Woelfel
support team: Cristiano Calcagno, @reasonvienna - @ryyppy @svensauleau @cezarneaga and @nikgraf in spirit, @matystl, @MyNaartjie

Support and Questions: Join discord channel

Workshop Presentation

• workshop flow and exercises

hello-reactive reason project

• the repo we worked from in the workshop

Reason syntax

• understand how to read it. (ps: old syntax)
• enter its first great features: exhaustive pattern matching, unused variables and _, destructuring, binding to JS

BuckleScript Manual

• type safety
• tree shaking
• fast compilation

Reason Try

• great to test syntax and check how it compiles to JS

Writing our first components

• start from last file in gist, work your way upwards
• 1. stateless
• 1. reducer component
• 1. bring in external JS libraries (eg. Moment.js)
• 1. effects: aka UpdateWithSideEffects

Mixing ReasonML into your React apps, Robbie McCorkell - React London September 2017

• first workshop didn't get to this part
• we would have seen how to mix in Reason into a JS app
  ps: Daniel got into Bratislava from SF at 8PM the night before, prepped all night with me, then flew out 3AM the night of.

Callback Handlers

• how to reference component state or props from a callback.
• going through the entire documentation is recommended

Participant contributions

add yours too. send a PR.

• Simple starter repository for ReasonML - @MMiszy
• Get your ReasonReact setup! A checklist - @cezarneaga
• ...