Re: [Caml-list] Announce: ocaml-vdom (pre-release)

[Yaron Minsky <yminsky@janestreet.com>]

Alain, this looks awesome! We'll take a look at this and maybe use it
instead of the javascript library we're currently depending on here:

https://github.com/janestreet/virtual_dom

I'm curious if you have any story for making the recomputation of the
virtual-dom itself more efficient. Right now, we're using incremental
for this part of the story, as reflected here:

https://github.com/janestreet/incr_dom

That said, for small UIs, this kind of incrementality is less
important, so whether this is worth doing may depend on your
applications.

y

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Alain Frisch <alain.frisch@lexifi.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> You might be interested in the ocaml-vdom project which has been used by
> LexiFi for some time and open-sourced recently.  It contains two components
> which we use to create our browser-side UIs with js_of_ocaml and which might
> be useful to the community:
>
>    - Bindings to the DOM and other browser APIs, implemented with
> gen_js_api.  (Partial bindings, expanded on demand.)
>
>    - An implementation of a "virtual DOM" and the "Elm architecture", i.e. a
> programming model where the UI is specified by a state type, a view function
> (producing a functional version of the DOM), and an update function that
> modifies the state based on messages (generated by UI events or external
> interactions).
>
>
> Project page:
>
>      https://github.com/LexiFi/ocaml-vdom
>
>
> -- Alain
>
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