This week: phantom types, codecs, Tailwind CSS, easy config editing, and slaying anti-patterns.

Articles and Discussion

Modeling Currency in Elm using Phantom Types — thoughtbot.com

Joël Quenneville shows how to represent multiple currencies in the type system with the help of phantom types.

Advanced Elm #1: Codecs

Leonardo Taglialegne uses his elm-codec package as an example to explain how he approaches writing libraries that use complex types.

Tools and Projects

Put some Tailwind in your Elm

Dean Montgomery has created a PostCSS plugin that allows you to put your Tailwind classes into Elm

elm-config-ui 1.0.0

James Gary's package allows you to add a mini-editor into the browser to let you update config values on the fly without refreshing, and save config to localStorage.

Talks

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