What was your approach to move to BS 7.x coming from BS 5.x?


#1

I think a lot of people, including myself, still stuck at BS 5.x due to the breaking changes introduced in BS 7.x


#2

There’s an upgrade guide: https://bucklescript.github.io/docs/en/upgrade-to-v7


#3

It turned out to be easier than I thought thanks to the community effort.
I had some minor problems with some old packages like https://github.com/astrocoders/recontainers, https://github.com/Astrocoders/bs-react-native-jsx3-compat/ and https://github.com/astrocoders/bs-react-native-paper but I could patch them just fine


#4

Cool stuff that I found after upgrading:

  • Ok and Error in scope by default
  • let%private