dbuenzli / React

React — Declarative events and signals for OCaml

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React is an OCaml module for functional reactive programming (FRP). It provides support to program with time varying values : declarative events and signals. React doesn't define any primitive event or signal, it lets the client chooses the concrete timeline.

React is made of a single, independent, module and distributed under the ISC license.

Home page: http://erratique.ch/software/react
Contact: Daniel Bünzli <daniel.buenzl [email protected]>

Installation

React can be installed with opam:

opam install react

If you don't use opam consult the opam file for build instructions.

Documentation

The documentation and API reference is automatically generated by ocamldoc from the interfaces. It can be consulted online and there is a generated version in the doc directory of the distribution.

Sample programs

If you installed React with opam sample programs are located in the directory opam config var react:doc.

In the distribution sample programs are located in the test directory of the distribution. They can be built with:

ocamlbuild -use-ocamlfind test/tests.otarget

The resulting binaries are in _build/test.

• test.native tests the library, nothing should fail.
• clock.native is a command line program using ANSI escape sequences and the Unix module to print the current local time.
• breakout.native is a command line program using ANSI escape sequences and the Unix module to implement a simple breakout game.