Exploring the web one Elixir at a time
Unless you’ve been hiding under rock for the past year or so, you should be aware of Elm. If so far you have managed to miss this language/paradigm in your learning then there is no time like the present to pick it up and get familiar.
This article will present how to include Elm in your Phoenix projects so that your Elm code is intergrated into the asset pipeline and built automatically as you create a Phoenix application.
This first article in the series concerns itself with discussing higher order functional programming (FP) concepts or rather abstractions and how they can apply in the context of JavaScript. Some of these concepts will be unfamiliar to those who approach JavaScript from an object-oriented perspective.
Topics that will be discussed in this post are Functors, Maybe, Either and Monads.
If thats interesting, then read on.
This is an introduction to Functional Programming (FP) for the unaware and discusses a number of concepts that JavaScript (or in deed any) programmers that come from OOP-Land might probably not be overly familiar with.
Given the drive to FP and the benefits that it can bring over imperative coding styles, now is a great time to get up to speed.
