Posts tagged jbuilder

Configurator Reborn

With dune 1.0 around the corner, there’s a pressing need to create some hype raise awareness of the upcoming features. In this post, I’d like to talk about one such transition: the move to dune’s own configuration kit called configurator. Since the library itself is still fairly new, I’ll first introduce configurator itself and show what problems it attempts to solve.

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jbuilder (dune) Beta 17

The 17th beta of jbuilder represents a few months of development. While that’s a bit longer than our usual release cycle for these betas, we do have a larger release than usual. So I’ve decided to write up a little post in addition to just posting the usual change log. I’ll talk about some important new features, and some less important ones as well. A couple of things that I’ll omit are bug fixes and experimental features as this blog post is already long.

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Extension Points - 3 Years Later

UPDATE: 2017-12-05 smondet pointed out that the extension doesn’t work quite as the original. ppx_getenv should fetch the environment variable at compile time rather than at runtime. The extension and the snippets in this post have been updated to reflect this.

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