This week: game jam reflections, the builder pattern, Material Components, and what if custom types were the only tool we had?

Articles and Discussion

🐮 "Is it my cow?" Elm game Postmortem - Part 1 - The idea and core problem — wiktor.toporek.me

Wiktor Toporek dives into the details of implementing his game, starting with generating randomised SVGs for cow coat patterns.

Elm Radio Episode 8: The Builder Pattern — elm-radio.com

Jeroen and Dillon discuss the uses of the builder pattern and the tradeoffs involved.

Lessons learned from Elm Game Jam #4 — discourse.elm-lang.org

Joël Quenneville reflects on his experience creating an ecosystem simulator for The Elm Game Jam, with comments on refactoring, dependencies, debugging, and custom types.

Tools and Projects

elm-spa v5

Ryan Haskell Glatz has released a new version of elm-spa complete with a new site that includes a guide. elm-spa is a code generation tool that integrates elm-live, elm-ui and elm-test. This version features an updated CLI with interactive commands.

Talks

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