Millie Macdonald on investigating Reason and choosing TypeScript

# 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/)

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)

# 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)

# 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

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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

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.

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.