The fastest, friendliest, and most delightful way to get started with OCaml, ReasonML, and Melange, geared towards JavaScript and TypeScript developers
Get started by running npm create melange-app@latest
create-melange-app is an opinionated CLI tool for quickly getting
started with Melange, a
compiler for compiling OCaml
and ReasonML to
JavaScript. It is geared at feeling familiar for developers coming from a
JavaScript or TypeScript background and focused on enabling them to be
productive as quickly as possible.
If you want to learn more about OCaml, ReasonML, and Melange,
check out
Dillon Mulroy's
conference talk on Melange and how it can be a more type safe solution for your
apps than TypeScript.
To scaffold an app using `create-melange-app`, run any of the following commands
and answer the command prompt questions:
### npm
```bash
npm create melange-app@latest
```
### pnpm
```bash
pnpm create melange-app@latest
```
### bun
```bash
bun create melange-app@latest
```
Community, Help, & Resources
- [The Caravan Discord Server](https://discord.gg/fNvVdsUWHE) - This is where
the maintainers of `create-melange-app` hang out!
- [OCaml's official site](https://ocam.org)
- [ReasonML's official site](https://reasonml.github.io/)
- [Melange Docs](https://melange.re)
- [OCaml Discuss Forums](https://discuss.ocaml.org/)
- [OCaml Discord Server](https://discord.gg/Qpzjmc4t)
- [ReasonML Discord Server](https://discord.gg/jPEH58TU)
Contributors
We 🫶 contributors! Feel free to contribute to this project. We want
`create-melange-app` to be a project where developers new to OCaml & ReasonML
can learn and contribute meaningfully. A contributing guide and roadmap will
be coming soon! In the mean time, please check in at
[The Caravan Discord](https://discord.gg/fNvVdsUWHE) for
help getting started working on `create-melange-app`.
I (Dillon) wanted to give special thanks to a few folks and groups.
1. Everyone who has supported me while coding `create-melange-app` on [twitch](https://twitch.tv/dmmulroy).
2. The Melange core team for always being superbly helpful and building an amazing tool.
3. All the contributors to [create-t3-app](https://github.com/t3-oss/create-t3-app/tree/main). Your work and code has been a huge inspiration to me.
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