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Re:How to write PureScript react components to replace JavaS... by azangru on Thursday June 25, 2020 @09:45AM (#23640658)
How is Purescript these days?

I haven't heard many news from its ecosystem since Phil Freeman stepped down from its active development. Purescript by Example must be quite outdated by now? I know that Alex Kelley is still working on his set of tutorials "Make the Leap from Javascript to Purescript"[0]. Anything else interesting going on?

I feel like there was a lot of excitement about Purescript in around 2015-2016, but then it sort of died out?

0 - https://github.com/adkelley/javascript-to-purescript

Re:How to write PureScript react components to replace JavaS... by TexInWien on Thursday June 25, 2020 @10:24AM (#23641095)
There's plenty of interesting activity going on:

The Discourse ( https://discourse.purescript.org/ ) and Slack channels ( https://fpchat-invite.herokuapp.com/ ) are active (and quite welcoming / helpful).

A community fork of "PureScript by Example" is being updated / maintained, here: https://book.purescript.org/

Try PureScript is back online after a hiatus: https://try.purescript.org/

The compiler is now at version 0.13.8 with reasonably regular updates (and 0.14.0 should be on the way reasonably soon): https://github.com/purescript/purescript/releases

Spago, the new(ish) package manager, is quite nice: https://github.com/purescript/spago

The VSCode integration is solid. I'd say the tooling story is pretty good, over all.

Work is underway to provide a package registry, since bower is being phased out: https://github.com/purescript/registry

Halogen 5 was released recently: https://github.com/purescript-halogen/purescript-halogen

Re:How to write PureScript react components to replace JavaS... by scns on Thursday June 25, 2020 @10:08AM (#23640921)
The book is being kept up to date by the community:

https://github.com/purescript-contrib/purescript-book