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Programming Elm
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Programming Elm

by Jeremy Fairbank
July 2019
Intermediate to advanced
310 pages
7h 26m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Who Is This Book For?

This book is for front-end developers new to Elm who want to quickly learn how to build maintainable applications with it. You’ll start with basics such as Elm’s syntax and creating functions and advance all the way to building a single-page application.

Before you read this book, you should know HTML and how to nest HTML elements. Elm’s syntax for building UIs closely mimics HTML. You should also have a good grasp of JavaScript. This book compares some Elm code to JavaScript code—you should know basic JavaScript syntax, objects, arrays, and how to create functions.

In a later chapter, you’ll add Elm code to an existing JavaScript application, so you should be familiar with how to process events with callbacks, bind functions ...

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