js_of_ocaml VS yojson

Compare js_of_ocaml vs yojson and see what are their differences.

js_of_ocaml

Compiler from OCaml to Javascript. (by ocsigen)

yojson

Low-level JSON parsing and pretty-printing library for OCaml (by ocaml-community)
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js_of_ocaml yojson
4 1
930 309
1.3% 1.9%
9.4 6.8
8 days ago 4 months ago
OCaml OCaml
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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js_of_ocaml

Posts with mentions or reviews of js_of_ocaml. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-04.
  • Question about the Reason project in general
    3 projects | /r/rescript | 4 Feb 2022
    In reality, most folks that developed BuckleScript frontends with ReasonML switched to ReScript syntax and are happy with it. Some felt more friction because of their reliance on PPXes or FP-heavy libraries (like Relude) and those people tend to use the Melange fork of BuckleScript or they switched to js_of_ocaml.
  • Is there a statically typed functional programming language that doesn't take purity so seriously?
    7 projects | /r/functionalprogramming | 1 Jun 2021
    TL;DR: Reason is, and always has been, independent of ReScript (formerly BuckleScript) and is still actively maintained. If you want to use Reason or OCaml to make native code you can. If you want to compile JS from OCaml or Reason you also still can, but you'll want to use either js_of_ocaml or a BuckleScript fork named Melange that was made in response to the BuckleScript/ReScript people's shenanigans. And if you only care about JS-like syntax and JS output, you can use ReScript.
  • query-json: A story of cross-compilation with Reason
    8 projects | dev.to | 12 Oct 2020
    The compilation to JavaScript is the sweet section of this blog post since we are using OCaml (under the hood while writing Reason), and it allows us to compile directly to JavaScript using js_of_ocaml.

yojson

Posts with mentions or reviews of yojson. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2020-10-12.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing js_of_ocaml and yojson you can also consider the following projects:

melange - A mixture of tooling combined to produce JavaScript from OCaml & Reason

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

jsoo-react - js_of_ocaml bindings for ReactJS. Based on ReasonReact.

otoml - TOML parsing, manipulation, and pretty-printing library for OCaml (fully 1.0.0-compliant)

bs-json - Compositional JSON encode/decode library for BuckleScript

bs-emotion - BuckleScript bindings to Emotion

query-json - Faster, simpler and more portable implementation of `jq` in Reason

scriptum - Functional Programming Unorthodoxly Adjusted to Client-/Server-side Javascript

sedlex - An OCaml lexer generator for Unicode

vult - Vult is a transcompiler well suited to write high-performance DSP code