ReasonML Quick Start Guide

DataPureReason.re

Remember when BuckleScript bindings felt kind of obscure? Hopefully, they're now starting to feel a bit more straightforward:

[@bs.val] [@bs.scope "localStorage"] external getItem: string => string = "";[@bs.val] [@bs.scope "localStorage"]external setItem: (string, string) => unit = "";

To parse the JSON, we'll use the Js.Json module.

The Js.Json documentation can be found at the following URL: https://bucklescript.github.io/bucklescript/api/Js_json.html

Soon, you'll see one way to use the Js.Json module to parse JSON strings. One caveat, though: it's a bit tedious. But it's important to understand what is going on and why we need to do this for typed languages such as Reason. At a high level, we will validate the JSON ...