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Is anyone interested in an Elm tutorial?

Dwayne Crooks on July 12, 2019

I'm interested in writing an Elm tutorial but I'm not sure what you all would want from such a tutorial. My gut feeling is that there is a need fo...

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Scott Simontis • Jul 12 '19

Some topics that I don't think have been covered well in the official documentation:

Web components...yay or nay?
The SPA example would definitely be a very good way to thoroughly tie together all the parts of Elm
Taking advantage of the parser library to do something cool...perhaps creating a DSL for building forms or something else that would simplify really tedious tasks?
Elm and JS interopt, or strategies for gradually introducing your team to Elm.
Some high-quality automated testing, possibly even from a TDD perspective.

Dwayne Crooks • Jul 12 '19

Since I have you here.

What tutorial would YOU be most interested in reading (from your list or otherwise)? Are you currently trying to build something and struggling?

Scott Simontis • Jul 12 '19

Definitely parsing, I love learning about compilers!

Dwayne Crooks • Jul 12 '19

Nice! Thanks for these suggestions.

Scott Simontis • Jul 14 '19

Also, since you seem to be the biggest evangelist for Elm right now, could you recommend any specific Elm projects that need help?

Dwayne Crooks • Jul 14 '19

you seem to be the biggest evangelist for Elm right now

I have an interest in Elm that I'm exploring deeply. I share what I learn but I'm no evangelist for Elm.

could you recommend any specific Elm projects that need help?

None that I'm aware of at the moment.

Cyprian • Jul 15 '19

I love what you do with it, was telling my friend about you today and yes I'd love to learn it please..make a tutorial for it, text or video is fine..thanks