Very confusing quick start Error: theme basic-reason not found

[AkechiShiro]

I have tried the instruction from the quick-start and ran into this error :

npm install -g bs-platform
bsb -init my-first-app -theme basic-reason # --> Fails here
cd my-first-app
npm run start

I don't think I'm supposed to get this error, previous to that bsb has been installed correctly using npm I can provide further details if needed to diagnose what's going on here.

Here is the ouput during the installation of bsb :

/usr/bin/bsb -> /usr/lib/node_modules/bs-platform/bsb
/usr/bin/bsc -> /usr/lib/node_modules/bs-platform/bsc
/usr/bin/bsrefmt -> /usr/lib/node_modules/bs-platform/bsrefmt
/usr/bin/bstracing -> /usr/lib/node_modules/bs-platform/lib/bstracing

> [email protected] postinstall /usr/lib/node_modules/bs-platform
> node scripts/install.js

ninja binary is already cached and installed:  /usr/lib/node_modules/bs-platform/linux/ninja.exe
checkoutput: BuckleScript 8.3.1 ( Using OCaml:4.06.1+BS )
 ocaml version 4.06.1+BS
Prebuilt compiler works good
+ [email protected]
added 1 package from 1 contributor in 8.46s

bsb -init my-first-app -theme basic-reason
Making directory my-first-app
Available themes: 
basic
generator
minimal
node
react-hooks
react-starter
tea
Error: theme basic-reason not found

[mblarsen]

Getting that too. Very anti-climatic.

[AkechiShiro]

Found any workaround or fix @mblarsen ? I'm trying to discuss about this issue on the Reason Discord so that we can close this issue or solve it somehow.

[gaku-sei]

It seems that the theme has indeed been dropped rescript-lang/rescript-compiler#4640

It really makes me feel that ReasonML and BuckleScript will not work together for a long time, it's really concerning...

[davesnx]

The only workaround is not installing the latest bs-platform (@8.2.0) and use the "basic-reason".

[AkechiShiro]

There is no other possibility than just not installing the latest bs-platform at the moment? @davesnx

Is there any way that the change on rescript-lang/rescript-compiler#4640 would get reversed ?

I just don't understand what is the motivation behind the removal of this theme, like it's being used by devs and I don't think it's breaking anything in their codebase hence why remove it ? I'm clueless to this.

I did ask why it was removed in the issue but if someone has any more information and can enlighten me please do so.

But in the end I'm really just a beginner here so I could be wrong about all the above.

[gaku-sei]

I just don't understand what is the motivation behind the removal of this theme, like it's being used by devs and I don't think it's breaking anything in their codebase hence why remove it ? I'm clueless to this.

I'm just like you, totally puzzled by the whole ReScript rebranding 😕

It seems that the ReScript team is trying to remove all tracks of "ReasonML" from the doc and the tooling to make it less confusing for the newcomers. Ironically, it's even more confusing, especially since many existing libraries and docs all point to ReasonML, and that ReasonML as a brand, is still way stronger than ReScript...

To make it clear, if someone wants to use BuckleScript, they have to use ReScript or get a degraded experience if they use ReasonML/OCaml (no themes, no updates (the OCaml version used by the compiler is still 4.06 when the lastest version of the official compiler is already 4.11, no docs, etc...). For the native developments though, Dune is a very nice tool and it supports ReasonML out of the box 😄

(Funnily enough I created an issue earlier: #2634 to get some clarification from the ReasonML team regarding the support of the language for the web as it seems ReasonML might be used mostly with the native OCaml compiler from now on).

[tmattio]

Hey @AkechiShiro!

Not sure the template is what you're looking for, but Spin has a template for ReScript: https://github.com/tmattio/spin-rescript

It supports both Reason and ReScript syntaxes.

I'm happy to work on other ReScript templates if this one does not quite suit your needs. Hope it helps 🙂

[bobzhang]

hi @AkechiShiro , this is an unexpected breakage
Fixed in rescript-lang/rescript-compiler#4808
I did not watch this repo, if you have any issues, feel free to report in rescript-compiler repo.

[ryyppy]

The whole Installation page needs to be rewritten. Reason advertises itself as a natively compiled language, but refers to BuckleScript (wrong name), and still contains a ReScript quickstart guide.

If you check out the ReScript Installation section, you will see that we changed our getting started workflows.

[AkechiShiro]

Thanks for the cleaner explanation.

[ryyppy]

We removed the outdated installation instructions on the ReasonML docs and forward users to the ReScript docs.

(See latest PR)