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Answering your questions about Elm

A few days ago, we tweeted telling people to ask us any questions they have about Elm.

We got a few questions, and we tried to answer them all on Twitter. This blog post will summarize those questions, to hopefully help other people that had the...

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The Power of Elm in JavaScript

Since first learning of Elm, I’ve only heard good things. I’m convinced Elm could become the future of front-end development in the coming years. Here are some blog posts in the Elm community that have particularly stuck out to me:

Why Elm is Going...

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I Want JSON Decoders

The other day, I got a report about the Ember.js app I'm working on: when a customer applied a coupon in the basket, they'd see an indication that the coupon was applied, but the basket total would still display as if it hadn't been...

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Building your SPA in Elm - Part 1

This is the sixth post in a series of posts about Elm for JavaScript developers. If you're a JavaScript developer, and you want to know more about Elm, stay tuned to this series of posts or sign up for DailyDrip and check out all the episodes...

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Elm Type Variables in Practice

If you've used Elm for more than a few weeks it's almost inevitable that you've used type variables with types such as List a or Maybe a . If you feel confident using data structures with type variables but you don't quite feel...

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Understanding Pipes in Elm

This is the seventh post in a series of posts about Elm for JavaScript developers. If you're a JavaScript developer, and you want to know more about Elm, stay tuned to this series of posts or sign up for DailyDrip, and check out all the...

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Partial Application of Functions in Elm

A friend of mine recently raised an interesting question. If a function takes two arguments, why is its type annotation f: a -> b-> c ? Wouldn't something like f: (a, b) -> c make more sense?

A solid understanding of how Elm treats...

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Our First HTML Application

Building a basic counter HTML application, using `Html.beginnerProgram`.

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Firebase Storage

Using Firebase Storage from Elm to store uploaded images.

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Elm Weekly Drip #37 and Exercise: Add Image Shapes

VR, Web-based Elm Editing, and a host of node-related Elm tools. Also an exercise to add SVG images to our editor.

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Dictionaries of Components

A pattern for managing dynamic stateful components in your application, and a discussion of situations where you shouldn't.

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Solution for Adding Image Shapes

Adding support for SVG Image nodes to our editor, and preparing to play with elm-ffi.

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Elm Packages

An overview of the Elm package tool, ecosystem, and some related sites.

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Generating CSS Files with `elm-css`

Producing CSS files for use externally.

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More elm-mdl exploration

Using Material.Textfield, fixing up our header, adding badges and a list of messages. Also, prep readings for the upcoming week.

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Elm Weekly Drip #7

Structuring larger Elm apps, creating web components that use Elm internally, how languages can encourage productivity by being difficult, a blip on a Radar, and $$$$.

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Elm Weekly Drip #1 and Exercise: Counter Extended

Links getting a bit further introduced to the Elm ecosystem, and an exercise to expand upon the Counter application we started in the last episode.

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Exploring Elm Native UI Further

Looking into some elm-native-ui apps' code and talking through it a bit.

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Building a Release

Adding vulcanize-loader into the mix and building a minified release.

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Requesting S3 Upload Capability from the Backend

Talking to a new API endpoint to request and store permission to upload a file directly to S3.

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