ReasonML has been skyrocketing in popularity lately, and for good... reason. Very recently developed by Facebook, it provides users a strong-typed, clean, and efficient syntax for JavaScript, which makes it great for web development. 

This course will get you up to speed programming in Reason. You'll start by learning how to create simple data objects and build up to more powerful tools such as functions and data structures. Along the way, interactive quizzes and exercises will help you gain a stronger grasp of the language.

Anyone looking to put themselves on the cutting-edge of web development would be well served to have a look at this course.

Functional Programming with ReasonML

## The Bridge Between OCaml and JavaScript

ReasonML, also known simply as **Reason**, was developed in 2016 by Facebook. It provides a new syntax and toolchain for the meta-language, **OCaml**. OCaml is an extremely efficient industrial-level language which focuses on type-driven functional programming and code optimization.

The purpose of Reason is to compile OCaml into JavaScript through the BuckleScript language. Bucklescript's syntax simply allows us to translate OCaml into clean and efficient JavaScript. This is why Reason adopts BuckleScript.



# The Bridge Between OCaml and JavaScript

ReasonML, also known simply as **Reason**, was developed in 2016 by Facebook. It provides a new syntax and toolchain for the meta-language, **OCaml**. OCaml is an extremely efficient industrial-level language which focuses on type-driven functional programming and code optimization.

The purpose of Reason is to compile OCaml into JavaScript through the BuckleScript language. Bucklescript's syntax simply allows us to translate OCaml into clean and efficient JavaScript. This is why Reason adopts BuckleScript.



In this introductory lesson, we'll take a look at the purpose of ReasonML.

A Brief Introduction

Data Types

Identifiers

Data Structures

Conditional Expressions

Functions

Loops

Variants

Objects

The Nature of the Language

The Bridge Between OCaml and JavaScript