Elm Weekly - Issue #158
Elm Weekly - Issue #158
Articles and Discussion
Jeroen Engels is back with another elm-review rules release! There are improvements to detecting unused code, as well as a new rule called Simplify which is able to perform several simplifications on Elm code.
Jesse Warden provides a side-by-side, example-by-example comparison between Elm and React idioms as a means of facilitating migration from React to Elm.
Phil Wade wrote a post about Elm types, aimed primarily at beginners.
Tools and Projects
elm eCommerce — elm-ecommerce.surge.sh
Luca Mugnaini has written a demo eCommerce application for a workshop, and also open-sourced it. There is also a dashboard demo and you can check out the source code.
I've created a tool that generates elm/json decoders and encoders along with the necessary types and type aliases from a JSON sample.
Cactus Comments - Federated Web Comments
Asbjørn Olling announced the release of Cactus Comments, a federated comment system for the web based on the Matrix protocol and implemented as a browser Matrix client. Have a look at the source code.
Talks
For another take on comparing React/Redux and Elm, Jade Dickinson gave a talk in 2019:
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