Learn Productively

Javascript to Elm

Learning or Building ?

• So which is it, learning or building?

  • They say the best way to learn something is to dive in and build something. Struggle with it.
  • Am I stuck in the tutorial loop? oh noes. 😱

• Yep I bought a book.

  • Practical web dev
  • by Putrady, Ecky
  • wanted to get a bit hands on in my area
  • compare things I do day to day. Web api’s and the clients usually web that consumes them.
  • really the fundamental request -> response cycle

• What I haven’t done is buy the Rust book, but I have put it in my shopping cart several times.

• So what do I want out of a language? Thought it might be a good exercise to write down what I actually want to get out of this exploratory phase I’m in.

  • … be productive?
  • … feel confident that the code is gonna work?
  • … not fight with the tooling. This is different than struggling with the compiler.
  • … be able to deploy code CI/CD without weeks in dev ops and have to constantly be ‘diving into the pipeline’ to figure out what in the world is going on?
  • That’s the appeal of lambda functions
  • …

• So with the book, you build a basic web app, it even touches rabbitMQ, which I’ve never played with. Auth, email sending, and pg for data persistence.

• My goal is to apply some of the theory that we’ve picked up so far,

• transform the examples in the book from mono-repo to lambda functions,

• and if it sticks build it out into an indie web api ?

• Don’t call it a pivot.

• Elm repo mirror.

Resources

Practical Web Dev With Haskell

Opinionated Guide to Haskell 2018 by Alexis King

Indieweb

Reactathon

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• Jesse Tomchak

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