Articles and Discussion

Native Elm (the real kind this time)

Christian Ekrem gives a brief overview of using elm-run for native Elm apps.

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elm-run project, the first true native Elm runtime

Damir's elm-run project, the Elm native runtime is now in first beta after six months of closed development! The first beta includes Cli, TUI, Web, and Game runtimes.

Wrap Kits

elm-wrap 0.7 lets you manage and install kits of your packages and tools,
like a portable private package repository.

An Elm Primer for React Developers: The Best Way to Learn Real Functional Programming

A new book, by Christian Ekrem, for teaching functional programming and Elm.

Jobs

StorageMart/Manhattan Mini Storage

Join a growing team at one of the largest independent self-storage providers in the world! 1-3 years of professional web development experience (internships and personal projects count). Full-time salaried position, PTO, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K. Stack includes Elm, elm-pages, TypeScript, Node, and AWS. US applicants only; must already be authorized to work in the USA.

That’s it for this week!

hayleigh-dot-dev/elm-lustre-ui

A collection of unstyled, primitive Web Components built with [Lustre](https://hexdocs.pm/lustre/index.html).

Programming in Elm for Pebble watches

A new IDE, Elm to C compiler and much more for building apps for Pebble watches.

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gampleman/elm-bench

A complete benchmarking toolkit for Elm.

bcardiff/elm-rad

A declarative DSL for building Elm applications as a reactive graph of cells, sources, and reactions.

Talks and Podcasts

Elm Town 90 – Wonder: Contorting yourself with Ari Schlesinger

Jared talks with Ari Schlesinger about how programming languages shape society and so much more.

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A time-traveling full-stack test debugger

A new end-to-end testing API and visual test viewer for elm-pages.

Tools and Projects

elm-cardano/blake2b

Pure Elm implementation of the BLAKE2b cryptographic hash function (RFC 7693).

elm-cardano/json-ld

JSON-LD parsing, N-Quads serialization, and RDFC-1.0 canonicalization for Elm.

That’s it for this week!

elm-json-lenses

An experimental package from Dwayne Crooks for working with JSON.

w0rm/elm-physics v6

A vareity of new features and improvements.

elm-cardano/base64

Fast Base64 encoding and decoding for Elm Bytes.

elm-cardano/sha2

Fast SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384 and SHA-512 hashing for Elm Bytes.

That’s it for this week!

v6 of the Elm plugin for IntelliJ

Added support for elm-test-rs, elm-wrap, reworked the elm-review panel, rebuilt the elm compiler panel, and lots more!

miniBill/elm-picture

Easily generate picture tags in Elm.

elm-ast

A Rust library for parsing and constructing Elm ASTs.

New version of Marten Truu's Elm language server

Suport for document symbols, formatting (via elm-format), renaming, and more.

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Building a better crossword page for my daily cryptic hit

Notes on building a UI for the Guardian crossword puzzle.

Tools and Projects

elm-cardano/x-bytes

Fast hex encoding/decoding and comparable byte sequences for Elm.

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Building a Z-Machine in the worst possible language

The building of a Z-Machine to play Infocom games.

agj/elm-simple-icons

Over 3000 project and brand logos as flat SVG icons, from the Simple Icons project, packaged for easy use within Elm.

dillonkearns/elm-outdated

Find outdated Elm dependencies. Supports both applications and packages.

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lenards/elm-patternfly-charts

PatternFly v6 chart components for Elm.

Sky

An Elm inspired langauge that compiles to Go.

lenards/elm-ui-patternfly

An elm-ui implementation of the PatternFly 6 design system.

That’s it for this week!

The FP Article I Can't Seem to Finish

Christian Ekrem talks about writing about functional programming.

Haskell for Elm developers: giving names to stuff (Part 7 - Traversable)

Flavio Corpa is back with more Haskell for Elm devs.

Tools and Projects

421anon/elm-flow

A package for writing effectful Elm logic as composable steps.

Mehgugs/elm-finger-tree

A implementation of finger trees.

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An Elm Primer: Testing Strategies

Christian Ekrem writes about the testing chapter in their upcoming book.

Iso-maze

The story behind https://maze.tasuki.org.

SOLID in FP: Interface Segregation and Dependency Inversion, or The Finale Where Functions Steal the Show

Christian Ekrem covers the I in SOLID.

Talks and Podcasts

Elm Town 89 – Elm Camp 2026

Elm Camp organizers Katja Mordaunt and Tomáš Látal share details about the June 15th-18th, 2026 event in Olomouc, Czech Republic, and extend an open invitation to Elm-curious folks in the broader community.

Jobs

Pulsa Sensors

Pulsa is hiring a frontend engineer to lead dashboard engineering (100% Elm). We're a stable, profitable start-up with a small team developing the hardware and software for the best sensor and telemetry platform in our industry. This role requires Bay Area proximity, working in-office near Powell BART twice a week. 180,000-$220,000 plus equity, 401k and employer-sponsored insurance. Email jobs@pulsasensors.com to apply with "Frontend Engineer" in the subject, or for any questions.

That's it for this week!

rism-digital/elm-edtf

A Elm package for parsing a practical subset of EDTF (Extended Date/Time Format), converting parsed values back to EDTF strings, and rendering human-friendly date text in multiple languages.

dillonkearns/elm-ical

Generate and parse a practical subset of iCalendar (RFC 5545) in Elm.

hereon-mb/elm-rdf

Work with Resource Description Framework (RDF) data in Elm. Use this package to convert Elm values into RDF graphs or vice versa, and build SPARQL queries.

TSFoster/elm-uuid 4.3

A new release of TSFoster/elm-uuid, adding support for version 7 UUIDs.

That's it for this week!

SOLID in FP: Open-Closed, or Why I Love When Code Won't Compile

Christian Ekrem discusses the O in Solid with examples in Elm.

Tools and Projects

Ephemeroo

An ephemeral chat and drawing app made by Moth.

Aleksander Ortynski's Photography Portfolio

Aleksander Ortynski's photography portfolio, built with Elm.

elm-pages Cloudflare adapter

An adapter for elm-pages and Cloudflare, from Yu Matsuzawa.

That's it for this week!

Articles and Discussion

Elm + Nix: A reproducible RealWorld clone

A quick demo/setup of using Nix with Elm.

SOLID in FP: Single Responsibility, or How Pure Functions (Almost) Solved It Already

A small walkthrough of how the Single Responsibility is a non-issue in Elm.

Tools and Projects

Achtung, die Kurve! in Elm

A web clone of the classic 1995 MS-DOS game Achtung, die Kurve!

diva.js v7

A new release of diva.js that ports portions of the UI and data parsing to Elm. Read about here https://diva.simssa.ca/docs/story/generative-ai.

Jobs

Indiana University (UITS Advanced Cyberinfrastructure)

Indiana University (UITS Advanced Cyberinfrastructure) is hiring a Systems Engineer in Bloomington, Indiana with a hybrid schedule (majority remote) to help operate and improve NSF Jetstream2 and the IU Research Cloud. The role may include contributing to Exosphere, an open source Elm web UI for cloud computing (https://gitlab.com/exosphere/exosphere). Apply here (Job ID 318369) and feel free to post questions on Elm Discourse (preferred): or in the #jobs channel on Elm Slack.

That's it for this week!

An Elm Primer: Declarative Dialogs with MutationObserver

An intro to implementing modal dialogs with MutationObserver.

Haskell for Elm developers: giving names to stuff (Part 6 - Foldable)

Flavio is back to talk about generalizing the concept of folding to any data structure that can be collapsed into a summary value.

Tools and Projects

elm-native – scaffold hybrid mobile apps with Elm, Vite, and Capacitor

A tool for scaffolding a mobile app with Elm and Capacitor.

The Elm Guide, en español

Ale Grilli has translated the official Elm Guide into Hispanic American Spanish.

That's it for this week!

elm-publish-action v2

A new release of elm-publish-action with updated dependencies and Node version.

elm-tailwind-classes

Type-safe Elm API for regular Tailwind CSS classes — no elm-css needed.

dillonkearns/elm-cli-options-parser v4

A plethora of improvements and features for elm-cli-options-parser to help with parsing and help printing in your CLI tools.

Elmfmt - A configurable formatter for Elm

A new Elm formatter from Adrian Sieber. An alternate code formatter to elm-format with some optional configuration.

That's it for this week!

Nix + pnpm + Parcel + lydell/elm-safe-virtual-dom

Dwayne gives steps on how to use Nix, Parcel, and elm-safe-virtual-dom together.

Tools and Projects

A pretty-printer for Elm debug logs

A helpful snippet of code, from Jeroen Engels, for printing out Elm debug logs.

jfmengels/elm-review-simplify 2.1.14

Over 70 new kinds of simplications and a few bug fixes in elm-review-simplify

dillonkearns/elm-snapshot

Snapshot testing framework for Elm.

Talks and Podcasts

Jobs

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RepoDash - Monitor commits across several GitHub repos

An app for tracking commit data across multiple repos.

Improving elm-coverage

A fork of elm-coverage for adding features and improving performance.

seatsavvy

Create your classroom seating chart with a friendly drag-and-drop interface, customizable seating rules, and more.

Talks and Podcasts

Elm Camp 2026 – Czech Republic

Elm Camp 2026 will be held June 15–18 in Olomouc, Czechia (Czech Republic). Tickets go on sale Feb 28th.

That’s it for this week!

Is Elm the Right Choice for Your Team?

An overview of the tradeoffs when using Elm.

Making TodoMVC work with dwayne/elm2nix

Implementing a todo app with dwayne/elm2nix.

Tools and Projects

kudzu-forest/elm-units-in-the-wild

A package for parsing and printing units.

That’s it for this week!