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Raphael Rafatpanah is a husband and father who wonders how he's going to pique his three-year-old daughter's interest in programming. With a background in business and math, he got started writing software to automate the data entry process at his family's business. Now, he's passionate about frontend development and the web platform. In his spare time, you'll find him searching for excellent sushi, photographing the world, and working on the elusive side project.

Bruno Joseph D'mello is proactively working at Truckx as a full stack developer. He is a JavaScript enthusiast and loves working with open source communities. He possesses more than 6 years' experience in web development. Bruno follows kaizen and enjoys the freedom of architecting new things at work. He is socially active via coaching in web technologies and participating in other research projects and meetups.

When not engaged with technology, Bruno likes to spend quality time traveling with family and friends.

Adam Coll is a full stack web developer and probably will be tomorrow. He has been at it for 10 years and loves the ever-changing and fast-paced landscape that is the web platform. Right now he's either fixing bad code he wrote last month, thinking about bad code he wrote yesterday or writing code that he doesn't realize is bad yet.

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ReactJS has changed the world of frontend development as we know it. Its creator, Jordan Walke, also created ReasonML and ReasonReact as the future of React. React's abstraction of the DOM allows for powerful programming paradigms that help solve JavaScript's maintainability problem, and in this book, we dive into exactly how Reason can help you build simpler, more maintainable React applications. This book is a hands-on guide to building React applications with ReasonML.

The target audience of this book is JavaScript developers who are familiar with ReactJS. No previous experience with statically typed languages is required.

, Introduction to ReasonML , discusses the current state of web development and why we would consider ReasonML for frontend development (and more).

, Setting Up a Development Environment , gets us up and running.

, Creating ReasonReact Components , demonstrates how to create React components with ReasonML and ReasonReact. Here, we begin building an app shell that we add to throughout the rest of the book.

, BuckleScript, Belt, and Interoperability , gives us a well-rounded understanding of Reason's ecosystem and standard library.

, Effective ML , dives into some more advanced features of Reason's type system using business examples.

, CSS-in-JS (in Reason) , shows how CSS-in-JS works in Reason and how the type system can help.

, JSON in Reason , demonstrates how to convert JSON into data structures in Reason and illustrates how GraphQL can help.