Elm Weekly - Issue #154
Elm Weekly - Issue #154
Articles and Discussion
Ju Liu describes a way to use elm-review to augment compiler type checking when converting a custom type to and from a string representation.
Elm Radio episode 27: elm-tailwind-modules — elm-radio.com
Dillon Kearns and Jeroen Engels discuss using elm-tailwind-modules to build type-safe Tailwind views. The advantages it provides are composability, and Elm's built-in dead code elimination.
Tools and Projects
Funk, the visual frontend framework
David Beesley and Jan Wirth have used Elm and elm-ui to create an open-source visual frontend framework for building complex web applications.
Mezzo - A Card Game created in Elm — discourse.elm-lang.org
Lucas Payr has created a card game. You can play it on itch.io and you can check out the source. Lucas used elm-ui and Orasund/elm-ui-widgets to implement the UI.
Daniel Kodaj wrote a pure Elm rich text editor which is useful for editing small amounts of text. It only needs a small amount of JS and supports variable width fonts.
Talks
I've run out of Elm talks to feature so here is a fun talk by Bartosz Milewski showing how the game Factorio is like functional programming:
That's it for this week!
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