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Elm
ByElmElm

Elm

#33in Build Automation
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What is Elm?

Writing HTML apps is super easy with elm-lang/html. Not only does it render extremely fast, it also quietly guides you towards well-architected code.

Elm is a tool in the Build Automation category of a tech stack.

Key Features

No Runtime ExceptionsFearless refactoringUnderstand anyone's codeFast and friendly feedbackEnforced Semantic VersioningSmall Assets

Elm Pros & Cons

Pros of Elm

  • ✓Code stays clean
  • ✓Great type system
  • ✓No Runtime Exceptions
  • ✓Fun
  • ✓Easy to understand
  • ✓Type safety
  • ✓Correctness
  • ✓JS fatigue
  • ✓Declarative
  • ✓Ecosystem agrees on one Application Architecture

Cons of Elm

  • ✗No typeclasses -> repitition (i.e. map has 130versions)
  • ✗JS interop can not be async
  • ✗JS interoperability a bit more involved
  • ✗Backwards compability breaks between releases
  • ✗Main developer enforces "the correct" style hard
  • ✗More code is required
  • ✗No communication with users
  • ✗No JSX/Template

Elm Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Elm?

RubyGems

RubyGems

It is a package manager for the Ruby programming language that provides a standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries, a tool designed to easily manage the installation of gems, and a server for distributing them.

Bower

Bower

Bower is a package manager for the web. It offers a generic, unopinionated solution to the problem of front-end package management, while exposing the package dependency model via an API that can be consumed by a more opinionated build stack. There are no system wide dependencies, no dependencies are shared between different apps, and the dependency tree is flat.

NuGet

NuGet

A free and open-source package manager designed for the Microsoft development platform. It is also distributed as a Visual Studio extension.

Meteor

Meteor

A Meteor application is a mix of JavaScript that runs inside a client web browser, JavaScript that runs on the Meteor server inside a Node.js container, and all the supporting HTML fragments, CSS rules, and static assets.

Composer

Composer

It is a tool for dependency management in PHP. It allows you to declare the libraries your project depends on and it will manage (install/update) them for you.

Python

Python

Elm Integrations

Tauri, Starship (Shell Prompt) are some of the popular tools that integrate with Elm. Here's a list of all 2 tools that integrate with Elm.

Tauri
Tauri
Starship (Shell Prompt)
Starship (Shell Prompt)

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Elm Discussions

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Dieter Vekeman
Dieter Vekeman

Developer at Tinkhaven

May 16, 2019

Needs adviceonElmElm

Frontend application Elm

  • Typesafe frontend coding
  • Easy refactoring (make the changes and fix the compilation errors)
  • Quick (re)compilation (v0.19)
  • Automatic recompilation in development using npm + webpack
  • Production output is small and fast
  • Built-in architecture (The Elm Architecture: Model View Update)
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zaaack
zaaack

Dec 6, 2018

Needs adviceonReactReactReduxReduxElmElm

React is awesome, but is just a view library, when we need to manage state, there is Redux. The ecosystem of redux is big, complex and hard to integrate. That's why we choose to create hydux. Hydux is simple, the main idea is from Elm, a pure functional vdom-based framework for front-end. We seperate the whole app with state, actions and views. Which means not only our views are a tree, but also our state and actions. Reuse state and actions are just like reuse react components, no need to consider dependences.

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jasonrobot
jasonrobot

Nov 30, 2018

Needs adviceonElmElm

Elm Is pretty freakin rad. Not only is it's type system hugely helpful, but the framework backing the language is fantastic.

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