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"Make the Back-End Team Jealous: Elm in Production" by Richard Feldman

Strange Loop Conference · 35.6K views · 2015-09-27 · 31:14

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Richard Feldman describes introducing Elm into a mixed React and jQuery front-end in production, and why the result was reliable, clean and fast enough to make the back-end team jealous.

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HN people recommend it as a quick way to get a sense of what Elm does and what adopting it incrementally looks like.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2015–2017

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elviejo · 2017-04 · Recommendation

Excellent question. Turns out there is: [LINK] Is a Haskell inspired programming language that makes developing front end a delight. It helps to build Reliable front ends. Watch this conference to get a sense of what Elm does. Making the Backend Team Jelous[1] Plus the Elm architecture makes everything orderly and easy to understand. Quite a change from the mess of react components and Angular rewrites. [1] [VIDEO]

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elviejo · 2017-04 · Recommendation

Excellent question. Turns out there is: [LINK] Is a Haskell inspired programming language that makes developing front end a delight. It helps to build Reliable front ends. Watch this conference to get a sense of what Elm does. Making the Backend Team Jelous[1] Plus the Elm architecture makes everything orderly and easy to understand. Quite a change from the mess of react components and Angular rewrites. [1] [VIDEO]

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abglassman · 2015-11 · Recommendation

I'm pretty keen to play with Elm, but it gives me some pause that an app like this (or the demo at [LINK] ) results in... 11k lines of Javascript. Nevertheless, these talks got me bulled up on Elm: [VIDEO] (Richard Feldman, collegially, on React -> Elm)</a> / [LINK] (Evan Czaplicki on the motivation for Elm)

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