Programming Elm

Why Elm?

More and more front-end developers are choosing Elm to build applications for benefits such as:

• No runtime exceptions in practice: Elm’s compiler catches problems early to prevent exceptions at runtime for your users.

• No null or undefined errors: Elm offers versatile types for representing null. The compiler also ensures you handle all possible nulls in your application.

• No JavaScript fatigue: You don’t have to choose and wire up different frameworks and libraries to build an application. Elm has a built-in framework for creating applications, the Elm Architecture.

• Predictable code: All Elm code is free from side effects, you can trust your functions to always produce the same result based on their arguments.

• Immutable data types: ...