ReScript Bindings for Ink (version 4)

Installation

1. Install all necessary packages according to the official "Ink" docs: https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink
2. Install rescript-ink4

npm install rescript-ink4

3. Add it to dependencies in your rescript.json:

{
  "bs-dependencies": [
    "rescript-ink4",
    ...
  ]
}

This library provides ReScript bindings for Ink version 4.

These bindings will only work with ReScript 11 (uncurried mode) and JSX version 4, as it enables us to utilize untagged variants, optional record fields and optional labelled arguments.

Ink 4 and ESM

Ink 4 uses ESM and so in order to run with node you need the following settings in your rescript.json

  "package-specs": {
    "module": "es6",
    "in-source": true,
    "suffix": ".res.mjs"
  },
  "jsx": {
    "version": 4
  },
  "bs-dependencies": [
    "rescript-ink4",
    "@rescript/react"
  ],
  ...

1. package-specs need to specify es6 (Not commonjs) to use import/export syntax
2. suffix needs end in .mjs so that all files can be run as esm modules in node js
3. use jsx version 4 with rescript react
4. specify "type": "module" in your package.json to run

Using your own theme

You can construct your own bindings with a theme. By default, components will just use a string for color eg:

open Ink
<Text color={"#9860E5"}>{"Hello World"->React.string}</Text>

Colors in ink simply use chalk under the hood so hex-codes/rgb and color keywords are supported.

Often it's nicer to specify your own theme and interop like this:

module InkWithTheme = Ink.MakeInkWithTheme({
type theme =
| @as("#9860E5") Primary
| @as("#FFBB2F") Secondary
| @as("#6CBFEE") Info
| @as("#FF8269") Danger
| @as("#3B8C3D") Success
})

Now anywhere that uses a color will take your themed variant instead of a string

open InkWithTheme
<Text color={Primary}>{"Hello World"->React.string}</Text>