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ReasonML Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   ReasonML Quick Start Guide Build fast and type-safe React applications that leverage the JavaScript and OCaml ecosystems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789340785
Length 180 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Bruno Joseph D'mello Bruno Joseph D'mello
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Stateful components

So far, we've only used the ReasonReact.statelessComponent template. To create a stateful component, we switch out the component template to ReasonReact.reducerComponent and override some additional fields within the record returned by its make function. As we'll soon see, we'll also need to declare custom type definitions for use in these additional fields. It's called reducerComponent because it has the concept of state, actions, and reducers built in—just like Redux, except state, actions, and reducers are local to the component.

A simple counter component with buttons to increment and decrement the current count is shown here:

type state = int;

type action =
| Increment
| Decrement;

let component = ReasonReact.reducerComponent("App");

let make = _children => {
...component,
initialState: () => 0,
reducer: (action...
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