Elm Town 56 – Why don’t you do it in Elm?

Elm Town

Théophile Kalumbu comes by to talk about how Elm makes developing a frontend fun, building a design system explorer, iterating quickly, and getting Elm to production.

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Music by Jesse Moore.

Recording date: 2023.03.06

Guest

• Théophile Kalumbu (@kalu_theo)

Show notes

[00:00:56] Some of Théophile's contributions to Elm

• kalutheo/ elm-ui-explorer
• Talk "Building a Design System with Elm" at Elm Europe 2019
• Recently talked about Elm on the French podcast "If This Then Dev"

[00:02:35] Finding passion in programming through Nintendo games

[00:09:20] Learning functional programming through React, then Elm

• lodash/fp

[00:11:34] Elm stands apart to make developing a frontend fun

• Elm documentation requirements

[00:13:29] "Why don’t you do it in Elm?"

• To the Elm audience member at the Elm meetup in Paris who encouraged Théophile to make Elm UI Explorer, if you're listening, please contact Jared ([e-mail]) or Théophile ([e-mail] or on Twitter @kalu_theo) to say "Hi".

[00:18:10] Don't be afraid to start small

• "Compilers as Assistants" by Evan Czaplicki
• "Incremental Type-Driven Development" by Dillon Kearns at Elm Europe 2019
• dmy/elm-doc-preview

[00:26:48] Getting Elm to production at Veepee

[00:32:26] Elm as a double-edged sword of reliability

• Dillon Kearns' elm-graphql

[00:39:48] How Elm has changed the way Théophile writes software in general

[00:44:33] Picks

Théophile's picks

• Domain Modeling Made Functional by Scott Wlaschin
• Richard Feldman's elm-css
• Richard's Frontend Masters courses
  • Introduction to Elm, v2
  • Advanced Elm
• Georges Boris' elm-book

Jared's picks

• Luca Mugnaini's Elm 2022, a year in review
• Matthew Griffith's elm-ui

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