This book serves as a succinct guide on ReScript, a functional language for building web applications. Using examples of ReScript language features along with explanations of fundamental concepts in functional programming, this book will show web developers with a background in JavaScript how to effectively use ReScript to its full potential.
In
Introducing ReScript
, you'll learn how to use features in ReScript that JavaScript lacks, such as type inference, null-safety, algebraic data types, pattern matching, and more. Along the way, you'll pick up functional programming concepts like immutability and higher-order functions. You'll also gain a sense of how ReScript works under the hood and how to leverage interoperability between ReScript and JavaScript.
Whether you're a web developer interested in dabbling with functional programming or you just want to learn how to write safer and cleaner code for web applications, this book is a great way for you to get started with ReScript.
What You Will Learn
• Use ReScript to write clean, safe, and elegant software
• Understand the features of ReScript that set it apart from JavaScript, such as type inference, null-safety, and algebraic data types
• Explore functional programming concepts like immutabhigher-orderr order functions, and pattern matching
• Use popular JavaScript libraries and frameworks in your ReScript code and integrate ReScript code into JavaScript codebases
Who This Book Is For
Web developers that want a strictly typed, safer alternative to JavaScript, as well as web developers interested in learning functional programming and leveraging the elegant and powerful functional features in ReScript.