
Reason Town
By Murphy Randle
A podcast about the ReasonML language and the community that makes it good.
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Gabriel Nordeborne and Murphy on Reason Relay
Reason Town • By Murphy Randle • Apr 21, 2020
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Gabriel Nordeborne and Murphy on Reason Relay
# Reason Town Show Notes - Gabriel Nordeborne (26)
Talking points:
- GraphQL
- [Relay](https://github.com/facebook/relay)
- How can the community support Reason Really and Gabriel?
- Give feedback
- Help cleanup the codebase
- Just use it and let him know how you feel (good or bad)!
Useful things to check out:
- [bs-flow-parser](https://www.npmjs.com/package/bs-flow-parser)
* Relay-dev’s guided tour
- [HTML to Reason](html.mrmurphy.dev)
Picks
- Gabriel: [Facebook’s talk on Relay-Next](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxPtYJRjLL0)
- Murphy: [Tailwind](https://tailwindcss.com/) and [Tailwind UI](https://tailwindui.com/)
44:60
April 21, 2020

Ulrik Strid and Murphy on Reason-Native Web and More
Topics:
- reason-native web
- reason-jose
- ocaml-cookie
- Azure pipeliens & Windows!
Links:
- [GitHub - ulrikstrid/reason-native-web: Basic toolkit for writing native web applications in reason](https://github.com/ulrikstrid/reason-native-web)
- [GitHub - ulrikstrid/reason-jose](https://github.com/ulrikstrid/reason-jose)
- [GitHub - ulrikstrid/ocaml-cookie: Working with cookies in OCaml and Reason](https://github.com/ulrikstrid/ocaml-cookie)
- [Hello Reason](https://github.com/ulrikstrid/hello-reason)
- [esy · Easy package management for native Reason, OCaml and more](https://esy.sh/)
- [GitHub - esy/pesy: Project configuration for esy](https://github.com/esy/pesy)
Picks:
- Be humble!
- [GitHub - ApolloZhu/Dynamic-Dark-Mode: The smart, automatic Dark Mode toggle for macOS Mojave](https://github.com/ApolloZhu/Dynamic-Dark-Mode)
45:44
April 07, 2020

Yawar Amin and Murhy on Types and Native HTTP (Episode 24)
# Reason Town Show Notes - Yawar Amin (24)
Murphy and Yawar discuss Type driven development, and ReWeb, Yawar’s project for easy HTTP servers on the native side:
https://github.com/yawaramin/re-web
Yawar’s pick:
https://monkey.org/~marius/funsrv.pdf
Murphy’s pick:
https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast
Yawar’s book!
[Learn Type-Driven Development](https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/learn-type-driven-development)
49:25
March 24, 2020

Murphy & Hoss Talk about Using Reason in Production (Episode 23)
# Reason Town Show Notes - 23
- Welcome back!
- Sorry we were gone for so long
- Jared’s doing well but we have Hoss on today.
- Announcements and news:
- Lots of new versions of bucklescript. Some of the biggest enhancements:
- New versions of OCaml
- Better error messgages
- Changed runtime representation for options and objects!
- In-memory standard library
- what color is your function
- Picks
- Murphy’s egghead videos: [Collection - Making an HTTP server in ReasonML on top of Node.js on @eggheadio](https://egghead.io/playlists/making-an-http-server-in-reasonml-on-top-of-node-js-dab086a2)
- https://htmltoreason.netlify.com/
Hoss -> @Hossman333
Murphy -> @mrmurphytweets
38:07
March 20, 2020

PSA (Public Service Announcement)
We're taking a short break while Jared becomes a Dad for the first time, and Murphy preps a workshop!
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01:49
August 23, 2019

Reason Template PPX (Macros)
This one is a screen share! Jared shows Murphy all about his new PPX for easily writing macros in Reason.
Video: https://youtu.be/sTL1f5gdHpY
57:46
July 30, 2019

Things We Would Like To Improve
Jared and Murphy talk about things they'd like to see improved in the language and in the community, and how to work around some of those things today.
50:25
July 06, 2019

Mac Apps, Async Error Handling, and Server Observability
Jared and Murphy discuss Jared's experimentation with creating Mac apps with Reason, and then delve into async error handling, building a server abstraction on top of bs-espress, and observability with Datadog.
01:06:44
March 18, 2019

Sean Grove & OneGraph
Murphy talks with Sean Grove about writing the entirety of OneGraph’s back-end in ReasonML on OCaml native!
54:43
February 15, 2019

Elm to OCaml, Technical Debt, and Escape Hatches with Paul Biggar
Jared Forsyth interviews Paul Biggar of CircleCI & DarkLang.com about his transition from Elm to OCaml, technical debt, and escape hatches in programming languages
45:19
January 26, 2019

Reason & React Native with Callstack.io's Mike Grabowski
The current status of React Native + Reasonml, and a hint at the future.
32:03
January 07, 2019

Auto-serialization & Full Stack
Auto-serialization & Full Stack. About Jared's project for auto serialization of data types (with migrations!) And Murphy's recent thoughts on error handling, major refactoring, and hammering out a new feature with full-stack Reason!
55:44
November 27, 2018

Error Handling and "Let Anything"
Jared and Murphy talk about error handling patterns, and Jared's PPX "let anything".
01:02:56
October 04, 2018

Potpourri
Jared and Murphy talk about a selection of news, Async / Await in Reason, Reason on the Server, and a new editor plugin!
53:47
August 21, 2018

Building an Inclusive community
A chat with Laura Gaetano about her @ReasonConf talk "Building Inclusive Open Source Communities" https://youtu.be/dUCErIbL_r4
https://twitter.com/alicetragedy
33:00
July 23, 2018

Reason Conf
Murphy talks with Patrick Stapfer and Nik Graf about organizing Reason Conf 2018 in Austria. The first Reason conference ever!
39:51
June 20, 2018

GraphQL
Jared and Murphy talk about Reason Conf, Bucklescript releases, and using GraphQL from Reason!
58:45
June 06, 2018

Why Reason got started, with Jordan Walke
Jared interviews Jordan Walke, creator of React & the Reason project, about why Reason got started and what the future holds.
29:55
June 05, 2018

Ben Sansouci & Avery Morin: Making Games in Reason & Native Compilation
An interview with Ben Sansouci and Avery Morin about Reason game development (via Reprocessing), compiling Reason to native, and Reason on Windows.
35:06
March 29, 2018

Reason Philosophy and Stewardship with Cheng Lou
Cheng Lou comes on as our first-ever guest to talk about philosophies guiding the Reason project, and what things are coming up in the future, for Reason and ReasonReact.
38:32
March 24, 2018

Wrapping and Interacting with Javascript
Murphy and Jared talk about how Reason's support for wrapping and interacting with Javascript
41:30
March 02, 2018

Getting Started
Jared and Murphy list some resources and talk about getting started with Reason.
25:46
January 27, 2018

Episode 1 - Introduction
Jared and Murphy introduce the Reason language and tell how they started using it.
40:14
January 10, 2018