Web Applications with ELM: Functional Programming for the Web

ISBN-13: 9781484226094 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 208 str.

Wolfgang Loder

Opis

Discover the Erlang-like Elm reactive programming language by using it in real-world applications. This unique book covers what Elm is, its fundamental building blocks, and using it to build a sample web application. Furthermore, Web Applications with Elm will cover what else Elm can potentially do and includes a handy language reference in the appendix.
After reading and using this book, you'll be building applications with Elm and will be able to apply it to your professional development efforts.
Reactive programming is a "new" paradigm for programming web applications. Of course, the concept is not new: it has been around for almost 20 years. Elm is a functional language that is based on functional reactive programming - although this term is not used by the creator of the language anymore - and makes writing graphical interfaces and user interface interactions easier and less messy than with JavaScript.

What You'll Learn

• Work with Elm and its development environment
  
• Use the Elm Architecture to create applications with the Elm platform
• Put it all together with a sample application and explanation that covers the implementation details
  
• Discover the future of Elm and its opportunities
  

Who This Book Is For
Web developers new to Elm, with some experience with Erlang recommended. This book is for others curious about Elm and its potential beyond web development.

Spis treści

1: Introduction

2: Getting Started

3: Elm Primer

4: Tooling and Libraries

5: Elm Architecture and Building Blocks

6: Putting It All Together

7: Where to go from here

O autorze

Wolfgang Loder has been programming software since the 1980s. He successfully rejected all calls for management roles and remained hands-on until now.  His journey went from Assembler and C to C++ and Java to C# and F# and JavaScript, from Waterfall To Agile, from Imperative to Declarative and other paradigm changes too many to list and remember. Most of his career Wolfgang was a contracting 'Enterprise Developer', so the introduction of 'new' languages, frameworks and concepts is very slow in this field. Once he decided to develop his own products he was free of such constraints and ventured into all sorts of paradigms, be it NoSQL or functional and evaluating all the latest ideas, crazy or not. In other words, he has fun developing software. Wolfgang was born in Vienna and lives in Austria and Kenya.

Blurb

Learn the basics of the Elm platform for web applications. This book covers the language as of version 0.18, its fundamental building blocks, and the most important libraries. 

 

After reading this book you will have an understanding what Elm can do for you. Also, you will be able to build on the example in the book to develop advanced web applications with Elm.

 

 

You will:

• Work with Elm and its development environment
• Learn the language and libraries in examples
• Use the Elm architecture to create applications with the Elm platform
Put it all together with a sample application and explanation that covers the implementation details