An Elm Primer for React Developers
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Part I: From React to Elm: Getting Started
Part I: From React to Elm: Getting Started
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Chapter 1: Elm: Constraints That Free You
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Chapter 1: Elm: Constraints That Free You
React Recommends, Elm Requires and Enables
When Constraints Give Freedom
Debugging Gets Boring (In a Good Way)
Refactoring with Confidence
Architecture You Don’t Have to Enforce
What This Costs You
What Elm Teaches You
Chapter 2: The Elm Architecture – A Recipe for Reliable Apps
The Recipe: Four Simple Ingredients
Ingredient 1: Model - Your State Shape
Ingredient 2: Msg - Things That Can Happen
Ingredient 3: update - How State Changes
Ingredient 4: view - Rendering Your State
Putting It All Together: Counter with Undo
The Elm Runtime Loop
What React Developers Already Know
What Makes TEA Different
The Price of Explicitness
What You Just Learned (The FP Hiding in Plain Sight)
What’s Next
Chapter 3: Your First Elm App
Installing Elm
Editor Setup
Setting Up Your Project
The obligatory “Hello, world!”
Two Flavors of main
The LGTM Generator: Building It Step by Step
Building Your First Elm App
Compiler-Driven Development in Action
What You Just Built
Chapter 4: Starting Small: Elm in Your React Codebase
Widget-by-widget Incremental Adoption Strategy
Integrating One Elm Component into React
Build Systems and Toolchain Integration
Scaling This Approach