Building a REST API with Phoenix and Elixir

Implementing GET endpoints

Why Phoenix and Elixir?

I’ve been intrigued by Elixir for a long time and the building websites and APIs with the Phoenix framework as aways…

Nine Guidelines for Modular Elm Development

Clean Code Lessons I’ve Learned

Why I Like Structure

I came to Elm after years of playing with mostly very opinionated frameworks. I love Ruby on Rails. The framework…

Building a REST API with Phoenix 1.3 — Part 1

It’s Become Even Easier

Overview

Early this year, I taught myself to build a REST API with Phoenix and Elixir and wrote about it. This has been by far my most popular blog post…

Tasks in Elm 0.18

Changes for the Better

Introduction

Elm tasks have always been a bit tricky for me. We generally use a task when we want to execute an asynchronous operation which may succeed or fail. Given that these aren’t pure functions, tasks are…

Getting Started with Elixir’s GenServer

Async Processing Made Easy

Elixir and Parallel…

A Brief History of Programming

Why Functional Programming Matters

The Early Days of Programming
There is so much hype these days about functional programming. As you’d expect, parts of this hype is valid but in some ways the prospect of functional languages…

Higher Level Coding with Elm Union Types

Make Your Code More Expressive

Single Page Web Apps in Elm

Client-side routing without the magic

Why Single Page Apps?

Once we start creating rich, responsive sites using JavaScript, it’s natural to want to keep as much of the functionality in the…

Making the Elm Model Modular

An alternative to subcomponents

Some Background

As we see more and more people writing significant applications in Elm, we’re starting to see a nice set of best practices. Many early Elm users…