Maxlibin

Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Built job portal web app with reasonML/ReasonReact, expressjs and mongoDB

    I have added a demo on how I use ReasonMl/ReasonReact with expressJs and mongoDB, you can see how I use Atdgen for sharing types from frontend, reasonML and backend, expressjs/javascirpt types. You can see how I use bs-emotion instead of css, or sass to style the components. you can see the repo on: https://github.com/maxlibin/ParentalJobs This […]

  • Writing css on ReasonReact with oCaml

    Recently I was working quite a bit on ReasonML / ReasonReact projects, and we moved from writing old approach of writing external CSS to inline-css with bs-emotion (using oCaml syntax directly). Its really easy to use css or sass / scss into ReasonReact components, you can import them the same way you import with from […]

  • Higher order component for ReasonReact

    A higher order component is basically a reusable component which allows you to takes in another component and return a new component. To recap about higher component check our my older post here In ReasoML higher order function are called "Functors" which takes in a module type and returns a module type, functors are written […]

  • Better way to decode JSON in ReasonML/ReasonReact

    Recently I was working on some reasonml/ReasonReact project which required to request data in JSON format from an API endpoint, well there are some BuckleScript decoders such https://github.com/glennsl/bs-json which is the more popular one, the way you decode is pretty easy: point = { x: int, y: int }; let point = json => Json.Decode.{ […]

  • fast piping in reasonml

    fast piping in reasonml fast piping allow you to transform your function code into more readable syntax, imaging you have human(person(age())) this is very inconvenience to see. with piping you can do it like this: age ->person ->human which is exactly the same as human(person(age())) there are 3 different pipes as I understand you can […]

  • Convert React project to ReasonReact project

    Recently I converted one of my old React project while studying React from Udacity sometime back, Since I am reading ReasonML recently so I thought I might as well convert to ReasonML language or ReasonReact, you can find it here. MyRead ReasonReact

  • optional chaining in javascript

    Imaging if you need to access deep level of property and you are not sure that if such properties exists deep down, you are doing something like books && books.book && books.book.authors && books.book.authors.author This is really difficult to read and understand sometime. there is something called optional chaining in javascript proposal which you can […]

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