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vitejs-template-react-rescript — Vite Starter Template

By jihchi

A starter that integrates ReScript and rescript-react into the official Vite React template, with Vitest and Tailwind CSS configuration included.

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Integrates ReScript and rescript-react into the official Vite React template

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Connects ReScript compilation into Vite via @jihchi/vite-plugin-rescript

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Built-in Vitest unit testing with rescript-vitest bindings

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Uses React Testing Library for testing UI components

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Styling uses Tailwind CSS

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MIT license, allowing free use, modification, commercial use, and distribution

Template Details

This is a Vite-based React starter template whose core work is integrating ReScript and rescript-react into the official Vite React template. The project connects ReScript compilation into the Vite pipeline via @jihchi/vite-plugin-rescript, so React components can be written in ReScript within the same project.

The template also includes testing and styling configuration: Vitest is used as the unit testing framework, together with rescript-vitest bindings and React Testing Library for testing UI components; styling uses Tailwind CSS. The README's getting-started approach is to pull the repository with npx degit, install dependencies, then run npm start.

The repository uses the MIT license, allowing free use, modification, commercial use, and distribution of this version of the code, provided the copyright notice and license notice are retained when distributing. Licenses for third-party assets such as demo images, fonts, and icons must be checked separately; external services such as domains and hosting may incur separate charges. The alternative listed in the README is rescript-lang/create-react-app (pointing to create-rescript-app).

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Use Cases

  • New projects that want to write React components in ReScript while keeping the Vite development workflow
  • Engineering work that needs to configure Vitest and React Testing Library in a ReScript project
  • React starter projects that want Tailwind CSS as the styling approach
  • Developers who want to reference how ReScript integrates with Vite (vite-plugin-rescript)

Suitable For

  • Frontend developers familiar with ReScript or willing to learn it
  • Teams using the Vite and React stack
  • Projects that need baseline configuration for unit testing and component testing
  • Projects that prefer Tailwind CSS utility-class styling

Getting started & customization

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    Pull the template with npx degit jihchi/vitejs-template-react-rescript my-vitejs-react-rescript

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    After entering the directory, run npm install to install dependencies

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    Run npm start to launch the development environment

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    ReScript compilation is connected to Vite via @jihchi/vite-plugin-rescript, so no separate compilation pipeline configuration is needed

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    Third-party assets and external services must be confirmed separately according to their respective licenses or billing rules

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More documented · 90 / 100
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Vite · React
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Starter
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Source file / repository
# Vite React ReScript Starter

- [Vite](https://vitejs.dev): Next Generation Frontend Tooling.
- [React](https://reactjs.org): A JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
- [ReScript](https://rescript-lang.org): The JavaScript-like language you have been waiting for. (previously known as BuckleScript and Reason)
  - [@jihchi/vite-plugin-rescript](https://github.com/jihchi/vite-plugin-rescript): Integrate ReScript with Vite seamlessly.
- [vitest](https://vitest.dev/): A blazing fast unit-test framework, powered by [Vite](https://vitejs.dev) ⚡️.
  - [rescript-vitest](https://github.com/cometkim/rescript-vitest): ReScript bindings to Vitest.
  - [React Testing Library](https://testing-library.com/docs/react-testing-library/intro/): Helps you test UI components in a user-centric way.
- [Tailwind CSS](https://tailwindcss.com): A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.

## Getting Started

```sh
npx degit jihchi/vitejs-template-react-rescript my-vitejs-react-rescript
cd my-vitejs-react-rescript
npm install
npm start
```

## Alternatives

- [rescript-lang/create-react-app](https://github.com/rescript-lang/create-rescript-app)

## Contributors

Many thanks for your help!

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