Reason Website

This code is used to generate https://reasonml.github.io. It pulls in files from docs/ and website/ to generate html files served on the site.

website/ contains the JS, CSS, images and other files (and blog, which contains some markdown files too, these are separated from docs/, not too important).

cd website && npm install && npm start to start the development server & watcher.

Don't use npm build. It's mostly for debugging.

In the end, we spit out normal HTML, with all the JS dependencies (barring a few critical ones) removed, including ReactJS itself. It's a full, static website, super lightweight, portable, unfancy but good looking. Works with JS turned off too.

Two special files:

• sidebars.json: lists the sections.
• siteConfig.json: some header and i18n configs.

During your development, most changes will be picked up at each browser refresh. If you touch these two files or blog/, however, you'll have to restart the server to see the changes.

Translations

The entire site can be translated via the Crowdin project. This repo only has the canonical english documentation. Don't manually edit things in i18n/.

Debugging

console.logs appear in your terminal! Since the site itself is React-free.

Building and Deploying

Changes from source branch are automatically picked into master branch by CI, then published. Translation download/uploads are still manual right now (needs API key, which @rickyvetter and @chenglou have).

Build the Playground

cd website && yarn

For modifying the actual try playground source code, run yarn bundle-try-playground:dev to start a watcher. Once you're done, run yarn bundle-try-playground:prod once.

If you're hardcore and want to build the actual bsReasonReact.js, refmt.js, stdlibBundle.js, reasonReactBundle.js or jsoo_reactjs_jsx_ppx_v2.js, then run the following

• cd website && yarn
• yarn prepare
• node setupSomeArtifacts.js

This only needs to be run once (per bs-platform/reason-react update). This step will break the first time you do it, from some BS syncing stuff. Go into your cloned bucklescript project and go in jscomp and do the following:

• Modify repl.js's occurrences of js_of_ocaml to an absolute path that points to it. You can get a js_of_ocaml binary from another opam switch that's not 4.02.3+buckle-master:

  opam switch 4.02.3
  eval `opam config env`
  opam install js_of_ocaml.3.0
  which js_of_ocaml # use this absolute path for the task above
  # switch back now
  opam switch 4.02.3+buckle-master
  eval `opam config env`

• Back to repl.js, change the one occurrences of amdjs to js
• Run:

  BS_PLAYGROUND=path/to/your/reasonml.github.io/website/playground/bs/ node repl.js
  npm install -g ..

If this command fails, ping @chenglou in Discord.