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Three Blogs and Podcast — August 13, 2017

My Weekly Reading List

I didn’t find myself doing quite as much reading as usual this week, but still I had to work hard to narrow down my reading list to three articles and one blog post. Here are my picks for this…

Three Blogs and a Podcast — August 6, 2017

My Weekly Reading and Listening

There was a lot of good reading this week. I always look through my reading list and narrow it down to three blog posts and one podcast that I found particularly interesting…

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…

Rails-like Flash Messages in Elm

Subscriptions to the rescue

The Problem

I’m working on a project using Elixir and Elm that needs real-time interaction between multiple users. I’ll be using Phoenix channels to send real-time…

React from an Elm Perspective

Taking a Fresh Look at React

Why React Again?

As anyone who reads this blog can tell, I’m a huge fan of Elm. I truly think it’s the future of front-end programming. Before I knew anything about…

Elm Html Events — Preventing Page Scroll

Here’s a quick hint for the holiday weekend. As I was working on more interactive Elm pages, I noticed that the default Html.onClick event often resulted in some undesirable behavior. Let’s say I click on an element somewhere near the bottom of the page and…

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…

Elm Quickstart Project

Getting Started Always Seems Hard

Often when I have a new idea that I want to play with using Elm, I hesitate to start because I just don’t want to spend the time getting the environment set up. Over the past year, I’ve gone through several…