I've had a fascination with functional programming for a few years now, but despite taking a quick look at Haskell I've not invested much time actually learning a functional language. I've generally tried to approach my front-end development from a functi...

Here at Pivotal Tracker, we have a large product with many pieces in many different tech stacks—some are in Rails RJS, some are plain jQuery, a lot is Backbo... (more…)

This is the backbone of a web application written in the Elm language (https://elm-lang.org/). This loop happens every time something happen. The “something” is converted to a message (Msg) and sent… (more…)

At QCon London 2017, Richard Feldman, software engineer at noredink and author of “Elm in Action” from Manning, explained how their decision to switch to Elm led to a 100,000 LOC system running in production with zero runtime exceptions since 2015. Here, ... (more…)

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… (more…)