Using Elm to Write Better JavaScript Code

Thinking Functionally in Another Language

I recently had to write a fairly small piece of code in JavaScript. It was a function that received a list of objects representing a list of countries. The list…

Bootstrap Tables with Elm

Surprises in the DOM

An Unexpected Problem

For my side projects, I often depend upon Bootstrap to provide basic styling of my pages. This gives me reasonable looking designs without writing a single line…

Uncertainty in Elm — Part I

We don’t need no stinkin’ nil

Introduction

One of the major pain points for newcomers to Elm is likely to be dealing with uncertainty in types and tasks. Most of us have been trained in other languages…

Emulating “duck typing” in Elixir

Get the same convenience in a functional language

What is Duck Typing?

If you’re familiar with dynamic object-oriented languages like Ruby, it’s likely you’ve heard the term…