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Getting Started

ReScript React Native is a safe & simple way to build React Native apps, in ReScript, using ReScript React.

Why ReScript React Native ?​

By leveraging the ReScript great type system, expressive language features and smooth interoperability with JavaScript (thanks to ReScript, ReScript React Native provide bindings for React Native features as components & APIs that are:

  • Safe and statically typed
  • Simple and lean
  • Familiar and easy to insert into an existing React Native codebase

It is often said that writing ReactJS code feels like "just using JavaScript". The same applies to ReScript React with ReScript React Native: you will feel like you are "just using ReScript".

How to use ReScript React Native ?​

Like ReScript React for React, ReScript React Native is a ReScript package that exposes bindings for React Native.

On your side, you write ReScript code that use the ReactNative module exposed by rescript-react-native package that you will find on npm.

ReScript will compile this code to safe JavaScript that React Native can consume like standard JavaScript.

Introduction

If you are familiar with Flow or TypeScript, you can see ReScript as the next level of strongly typed JavaScript.

In short, you write safer code that will be compiled to safe JavaScript & end up with a safer React Native app!

Zero-Cost​

What is awesome about ReScript React Native bindings is that they don't introduce an additional cost. The JavaScript code produced by ReScript will directly hit React & React Native JavaScript implementation, without any extra runtime & bundle cost.

Using ReScript & ReScript React​

ReScript React Native is a package that works with ReScript & use ReScript React. For this reasons, if you are unfamiliar with one of these two, we encourage you to have a look to their documentations as soon as you don't find an answer you might have here.