NoCo JavaScript

This month we'll be learning about Elm from Kyle Kress (https://toast.al/)(@toastal (https://twitter.com/toastal)).

Did You Get The Message?: Commanding the Elm Architecture

In front-end development, we have a library overload problem. The community is telling us that best practices revolve around pulling in even more libraries to our JavaScript application; those libraries and tools often look a bit like this: Redux, React, Babel, Flow, Immutable/Ramda/Lodash, ESLint, and competing testing frameworks.

While the community is definitely on to something – with immutability, un-encapsulation, embracing lambdas, typing (gradual or otherwise), and focusing on proper state management – what if there was an alternative, a frictionless language that wrapped up all of these concepts into its core without the need of bolting more libraries on top of JavaScript to make it behave in a way that it doesn’t come out of the box?

In this talk, we will do a brief fly-by over how and why front-end has evolved, present Elm as an alternative to all these little moving pieces in the current front-end toolbelt, and talk about the strengths of doing it at the language level through some live coding examples.

Although not entirely necessary, knowledge of React, Redux, and basic functional programming techniques would definitely help.

Beer and Pizza provided by Tek Systems (https://www.teksystems.com/en)