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Render HTML with JSX

html_of_jsx is a JSX transformation to write HTML declaratively in OCaml, Reason and mlx.

Features

  • Brings the component model to HTML
  • Supports most of features from JSX (uppercase components, fragments, optional attributes, punning)
  • but with a few improvements (lowercase components, no need to add annotations)
  • No React idioms (no className, no htmlFor, no onChange, etc...)
  • Integrates well with htmx
  • Type-safe, validates attributes and their types (it can be better thought)
  • Works with OCaml, Reason and mlx
  • Minimal
    • JSX.render to render a JSX element to a HTML string
    • JSX.* to construct DOM Elements and DOM nodes (JSX.string, JSX.int, JSX.null, JSX.list)
  • Created to work on the server-side, but can be used on the client-side as well (with Melange or jsoo)

Installation

opam install html_of_jsx
+ (library html_of_jsx)
+ (preprocess (pps html_of_jsx.ppx))

Usage

let element: JSX.element = <a href="https://x.com/davesnx">
  <span> {"Click me!"} </span>
</a>

let html: string = JSX.render(element);

Check the demo/server.re file to see a full example.

Check the Documentation to know more about the API and features.

Credits

This library was extracted from server-reason-react and later simplified to work only with HTML5.