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29: Elm in React Live
Javascript to Elm
English - March 15, 2018 10:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsTechnology elm javascript programming Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: 28: Ports Multiplying
Next Episode: 30: Total Elm
In lieu of this week’s episode we have a special presentation from my talk at Phoenix React JS meetup that I gave on March 14th.
Elm is a functional language that compiles to JavaScript. There are a lot of benefits that can be gained from using a functional language, more than just adding types as a super set to existing JavaScript. How about No more null. No “undefined is not a function”, we’ll never see these again! I’ll go over how to leverage this incredible language in our existing React Apps, and some of the challenges of taking this route.