Application Developers

Application developers are looking to build usable solutions to real world problems.

Application developers are looking to build usable solutions to real world problems. This could be as executables for computers, web applications in the browser or even unikernels with MirageOS. They share many traits with library authors like the need for testing, code hygiene, releasing to opam etc.

OCaml Workflows

Starter

Finding Answers to your Questions

Find answers, whether you are just starting out, have complicated theoretical questions or want to know more about building OCaml projects

Configuring OCaml Tools for your Editor

Add syntax highlighting and code completion to your editor

Environment

Keeping your Code Clean

Indent and apply formatting styles to your project

Checking Code Coverage

Use the Bisect tool to discover how much of your code is being tested

Coding

Compiling for Y on X

Compile code to run on different computer architectures

Running OCaml in your Browser

Use js_of_ocaml to run OCaml code in the browser and interoperate with Javascript libraries from OCaml

Writing Scientific Computing Applications

Use the OWL library to build scientific computing applications in OCaml

Meta-programming with PPX

Automate code-generation with meta-programming

Testing

Setting up Continuous Integration

Add CI to your project using Github Actions

Fuzz Testing your Project

Make fuzz tests to find uncover hard to find bugs in your code

Adding Unit Tests to your Project

Write tests to check the functionality of your code using Alcotest

Publishing

Publishing a Package on Opam

Share your libraries or applications with the community

Documenting your Project

Write maintainable and useful documentation for your library

Misc.

Incorporating non-OCaml Code into your Project

Add C code to your OCaml project

Fixing Bugs in 3rd Party Packages

Track down and fix bugs in libraries that you use

Profiling your Project

Profile the memory and performance of your application