Intro to Elm

Elm is a functional language that compiles to HTML & JavaScript and is growing in popularity. With it’s ability to be dropped into even the largest JavaScript application, it’s something that I think we’ll see more and more of over the coming years.

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1. Intro to Elm
   ConvergeSE 2017
   Tim Whitacre
   @timwco
   

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2. Who Am I?
   • Atlanta
   • The Iron Yard
   • Front-End Developer (mostly)
   

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3. What, Why, How
   

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4. What is Elm?
   • Elm is a functional language that compiles to JavaScript.
   • Created by Evan Czaplicki in 2012
   • Focuses on simplicity, ease-of-use, and quality tooling.
   • Replaces other frameworks, like React and Angular.
   

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5. Why use Elm?
   • No Runtime Errors
   • Great Performance
   • Awesome Tooling
   • Friendly Error Messages
   • Fun to Write
   

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6. Why use Elm?
   • Strongly Typed
   • Type Aliases
   • Union Types
   • Elm Format
   • Elm Package Manager
   

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7. How do I get started?
   • Is Elm right for me or my project?
   • The correct path is to first use Elm in a small experiment. If the
   experiment goes bad, stop it! If it goes great, expand the
   experiment a bit more.
   

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8. How do I get started?
   • Install Elm
   • Repl, Reactor, Make, Package
   • Configure Your Editor
   • Sublime, Atom, VS Code, Emacs, Vim ...
   

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9. Let's Code
   

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10. Thank You
    bit.ly/cse-elm
    

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