I did see that, but I discounted it because I wanted to make a serverside (native, not serverside-js) application, and I assumed that the reason-react-example was only for making compile-to-javascript applications.
Just so we don't miss the opportunity to learn - would you mind stating what you would find valuable in a toolchain for building a server side native system? What kind of things about project management/install appeal to you?
I had much the same experience. I'd be interested to try it for general purpose programming, but the setup procedure is so tied into doing web work that I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing.
Red (https://github.com/reasonml/red) provides a useable frontend to the ocaml debugger. If your code compiles with bucklescript (most code will), the debug experience using node and the chrome inspector is surprisingly good even without source maps. The compiled ocaml maps to remarkably straight forward javascript for most code. I used both while developing Immutable-re.
Ended up just writing it in Rust which I've been using for years now. I wanted to try something new, it's hard to compete with Cargo for package management + build tools.