The Elm Programming Language With Corey Haines

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The Elm Programming Language With Corey Haines

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Guest

Corey Haines: CTO of Hearken, creator of code retreats, and author of Understanding the Four Rules of Simple Design.

Summary

Want to build great front-end apps without having to deal with the entire JavaScript ecosystem? Corey Haines joins the show to talk about Elm, a front-end language and framework that is type safe, has great build tools, and a full-fledged MVC framework to create client interactions with less hassle. Corey has been using Elm to build the site for his company, Hearken, and talks about why he picked it, and what has made Elm a success for them.

For More Info

We've got a blog post relating to the code examples in this episode, you can find it at https://medium.com/table-xi/union-types-in-elm-fb6a974ec427.

Notes

02:25 - What is Hearken?

05:14 - The Elm Programming Language

• The ML Programming Language
• Dealing with Time in Elm

08:06 - The Type System and The Compiler

• Editable
• F#
• If you want a really detailed overview of types in programming languages, here's one from Gary Bernhardt
• Maybe type in Elm
• Union Types

21:27 - Elm as a Framework

• The Elm Architecture
• Managed Effects and Elm

26:16 - Deciding to use Elm

28:37 - Elm: Gotchas and Technical Limitations?

• Uploading files with Elm

32:37 - Styling and Working with Designers

• elm-css

35:45 - The Elm Community

• Join Elm on Slack

37:14 - Getting Started with Elm

• The Elm Guide
• The Pragmatic Studio: Building Web Apps with Elm
• Elm Remote Meetup
• Webpacker

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