Functional Reactive Programming on the Front-End using Elm

Categories: Language Elm Programming Reactive Functional Programming

The silent and deadly competitor to React and Angular. Meet Elm. All functional and client language. Absolutely Clean.

This presentation discusses Elm, how to set up Elm and use it to design a better web client using tenets of functional programming. We discuss some of the simple ideas of the language and talk about how it uses its own MVC style architecture. Other items include:

  • Functions

  • Function Application

  • Modules

  • Currying

  • Records

  • Commands

  • Subscriptions

  • Tasks

  • Elm Architecture