API - Color: Implement hex parsing

[revery-ui]

API - Color: Implement hex parsing

[kitten]

I'm not that experienced in dealing with Dune, so I'd be happy to leave this up to someone else if we'd like to go for https://github.com/anuragsoni/color :)

[bryphe]

This is a good place to start looking: https://github.com/bryphe/revery/blob/master/src/Core/Color.re

[bryphe]

Sounds like @kitten might help us out here! 💯

[rauanmayemir]

What do you think about factoring out Color to be universal to some extent?

There are https://opam.ocaml.org/packages/gg/ and https://opam.ocaml.org/packages/color/, and I've been considering to base some solution off of it for Brisk. Your implementation is as close as I'd imagine it myself.

[bryphe]

What do you think about factoring out Color to be universal to some extent?

Would be open to it, if it'd be useful!

There are https://opam.ocaml.org/packages/gg/ and https://opam.ocaml.org/packages/color/, and I've been considering to base some solution off of it for Brisk.

Cool. I didn't know about https://opam.ocaml.org/packages/color/ - that looks like exactly what we need for parsing / hex conversion. The only other thing we really have beyond that here is our list of colors contributed by @bgoscinski : https://github.com/bryphe/revery/blob/master/src/Core/Colors.re - is that something that would be useful for Brisk?

[rauanmayemir]

Sure, why not. I wonder if they could be upstreamed into Color or Gg, otherwise, we'd end up repeating it everywhere.

[bryphe]

I went ahead and added the @opam/color lib 👍 (And exposed just a thin wrapper that basically shifts the API from snake case to camel case).

@rauanmayemir - @jchavarri had an idea that is relevant to the sharing out of these sorts of APIs. He drafted a proposal here: revery-ui/reason-reactify#35

I think it's a really cool idea - having some set of basic primitives that could be used between projects. Wouldn't it be neat if you could create a custom component that could be used in both revery and brisk, for example? Would be great to get your feedback on that issue!