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lwt
- Por que aprender OCaml?
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Ocaml for web development
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From TypeScript to ReScript
I have to admit I don't know much about ReScript and only have very basic exposure to OCAML, here is how you do await in it:
https://github.com/ocsigen/lwt
The `let* in` is a generic syntax for monads, it doesn't need a special one just for promise. This was in fact a debate back when async/await was in consideration for ECMAScript, but special syntax is hip so now we have `async/await` for Promise, `.?` for optionals and `flatMap` for arrays, basically the same thing.
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Dream – Tidy Web Framework for OCaml and ReasonML
Dream doesn't have much of a system call dependency footprint itself. It's basically just a convention for plugging request -> response functions into a web server. Some of its native dependencies will have to be replaced by Node equivalents. Soon after that, it would be portable to Node.
There is already work underway to port Dream to Mirage, to run in unikernels: https://github.com/aantron/dream/pull/22
Lwt, Dream's promise library, is itself getting ported to run on top of libuv: https://github.com/ocsigen/lwt/issues/813
libuv is, of course, the I/O library that powers Node, so it might be practical to run Dream as a native node module very soon after doing this.
(As an aside, I'm supposed to work on that libuv project, but instead I've been working on Dream :P)
ocurl
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Ocaml for web development
We (a small company creating specialized inventory management and e-commerce systems) use Dream for web development. Webmachine and Cohttp for creating RESTful APIs. HTTP-clients with Ocurl and Cohttp. We are very happy with our choice of technologies.
What are some alternatives?
async - Jane Street Capital's asynchronous execution library
ocaml-cohttp - An OCaml library for HTTP clients and servers using Lwt or Async
dream - Tidy, feature-complete Web framework
libcurl - A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features
sihl - A modular functional web framework
ocaml-mssql - A high-level wrapper OCaml SQL Server client library using FreeTDS
genType - Auto generation of idiomatic bindings between Reason and JavaScript: either vanilla or typed with TypeScript/FlowType.
melange - A mixture of tooling combined to produce JavaScript from OCaml & Reason
rescript-compiler - The compiler for ReScript.
ocaml-webmachine - A REST toolkit for OCaml
Tomorrowland - Lightweight Promises for Swift & Obj-C