html_of_jsx

Render HTML with JSX

html_of_jsx is a JSX transformation to write HTML declaratively in , Reason and mlx. This library was extracted from server-reason-react and later simplified to work only with HTML5.

Installation

opan install html_of_jsx

Add it to your `dune` file

(libraries html_of_jsx)
(preprocess (pps html_of_jsx.ppx))

API

The only module exposed is JSX with some functions to construct elements and JSX.render to transform those elements into a string.

Overview

• Brings the component model to HTML
• Supports most of the JSX features (uppercase components, fragments, optional attributes, punning, childrens, etc...)
• but with a few improvements (lowercase components, no need to add annotations)
• Integrates well with Htmx (see the htmx page)
• No React idioms (no className, no htmlFor, no onChange, etc...), just plain HTML5
• Type-safe, validates attributes and their types
• Works with , Reason and mlx - Created to work on the server-side, but can be used on the client-side too (with Melange) See the page for all details