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Binding to a JavaScript Function that Returns a Variant in ReScript
2021-06-09 javascript indexeddb rescript variant
Note from the future: In the current year, none of this article is relevant anymore. Use Rescript's @unboxed attribute instead. It solves the whole problem I was trying to solve with this article, but much more cleanly. I will leave this article here as a historical record. ReScript provides easy ways to bind to most JavaScript functions in a way that feels both native and safe. Conveniently, it even provides an @unwrap decorator for parametric polymorphism. However, there are a few places where we still have to fill in the gaps. This article documents how to bind to a JavaScript function that can return any one of several different types using ReScript variants.

Binding to a JavaScript Function that Returns a Variant in ReScript