Oct 7, 2020

Elm Weekly - Issue #132

By Alex Korban • Issue #132 • View online

Benefits of TDD and unit testing, “Is it my cow?” animations, code design and modules, updated Elm VS Code plugin, browser extensions to parse Debug.log output, a tool to turn Elm output into ES6 modules, and an Elm OSS panel discussion.

Articles and Discussion

The Keystone Testing Habit

Dillon Kearns discusses the benefits of using TDD and unit testing in Elm.

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🐮 "Is it my cow?" Elm game Postmortem - Part 3 - Animation

Wiktor Toporek is back with part 3 of his blog series about the development of an Elm Game Jam game. In this post, he discusses animation.

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Episode 14: The Life of a File

Dillon Kearns and Jeroen Engels revisit Evan Czaplicki’s talk about organising code into files, and discuss code design and in particular, modules.

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Tools and Projects

VS Code Elm extension 1.4.0

The new version of the extension with contributions from Jon Bockhorst, Kolja Lampe and Simon Lydell has an implementation of type inference, which allows you to add inferred type annotations to functions and create function declarations from usage, among other improvements.

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Elm Debug Helper: Debug.log transformation browser extension

Tomáš Látal has released Chrome and Firefox extensions for transforming Debug.log output into expandable trees in the console. Very useful! This builds on his earlier work on elm-debug-transformer.

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ChristophP/elm-esm: Turn Elm compiler output into modern ES Modules

Deedo has created a tool that turns Elm compiler output into an ES6 module. dynamic-import and modulepreload are also supported.

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Incremental adoption of elm-review rules

Jeroen Engels is looking for input on incremental adoption of static analysis rules in Elm projects using elm-review.

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Talks

Elm OSS Panel - Aaron VonderHaar, Harry Sarson, Ian Mackenzie, Matthew Griffith

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