Highway to Elm by Jordane Grenat
780 views · Published 10 November 2017 · 46:42 · Indexed 14 November 2026
Channel: Devoxx · 2017 · Science & Technology
The modern front-end developers use many tools to structure and improve their applications ; frameworks – like React and Angular, one-way data flow architectures like Redux and even supersets of JavaScript like TypeScript. But what if we could rethink JavaScript from zero and create a language that is perfectly suited for actual front-end development, integrating all the good practices we’ve discovered in our search for quality? That’s what Elm is, a functional language that compiles to JavaScript. Its main strengths? The compiler error messages are limpid, performance is impressive and above all, you’ll never see a runtime error again. You can forget undefined is not a function! In short: if it compiles, it works! Let’s discover what makes this language one of the most productive and pleasant to use that I know, by discovering its syntax and live-coding a mini-game entirely in Elm! # Jordane Grenat Web Application Developer and Craftsman. Passionated about web technologies, I am really interested about Elm and the JavaScript ecosystem (new EcmaScript versions, SPA frameworks, tooling, ...)
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