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Building SPAs with Elm

Want to learn how to build more robust web applications with zero runtime errors? The Elm programming language offers an environment beautifully crafted for that purpose. Learn how to do just that with the Building Single-Page Applications with Elm book!

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You will learn the following topics:

  • Set up an online development environment in Cloud9.
  • Installing and using the Elm platform.
  • Architect bigger Elm applications.
  • Navigation and routing the Elm way.
  • How to communicate between modules using the Elm Architecture.
  • How to perform HTTP requests and parse JSON into Elm types.
  • Deploy a real-world single-page application.

Grown tired of installing and configuring multiple build tools, integrating several JavaScript frameworks and libraries, refactoring applications to work in an event-driven fashion, and countless other issues that arise when building web applications, I started looking for a better alternative, there had to be something!

I stumbled at Elm a couple of years ago, but it wasn't quite ready, it had the concept of Signals which was off-putting at first, I ran into a number of errors when installing and running Elm code, and you had to install it through the Haskell environment for it work which was an issue for people not familiar with Haskell.

But the story is different now, by removing Signals the Elm architecture appeared making it much simpler to develop applications, we can now install Elm with a single command by just having Node installed, there are a ton of packages ready to be used, the tools that come with Elm are awesome and build tools are optional.

Join us in this journey where we will build RecipeVault, a single-page application where you will be able to register, login, search and store recipes as favorites, all of it using the Elm programming language. See you inside!

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About the Author

Codemunity

Reading through a lot of theory and ending up with a hello world application is really annoying. We believe you should start with some foundations, but while getting your hands dirty, as this will help you understand the theory as you go.

You drive our priorities when deciding what content to release first, and what we should focus on. We will stick within a range of technologies, but the subtopics are for you to decide!

Join Codemunity and get started!

Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction

  1. What should I know?
  2. What are we going to build?
  3. What tools will be used?

Project Setup

  1. Creating the Cloud9 Workspace
  2. Installing the Node Dependencies
  3. Installing the Java Dependencies
  4. Creating and Running the Project
  5. Setting Up the API
  6. Creating a Helper Script
  7. Conclusion

Architecture Overview

  1. Current Project
  2. Future Architecture
  3. Conclusion

Architecture Refactor

  1. Create and Update Modules
  2. Refactoring App to Our Architecture
  3. App/Types.elm
  4. App/View.elm
  5. App/State.elm
  6. Update RecipeVault
  7. Conclusion

Navigation

  1. Navigation in Elm
  2. Routing Module
  3. Dummy Login
  4. Dummy SignUp
  5. Refactoring Our App Module
  6. Conclusion

Login

  1. API Analysis
  2. Types
  3. View
  4. Rest
  5. State
  6. Testing
  7. Conclusion

Sign Up

  1. Types
  2. View
  3. Rest
  4. State
  5. Navigation
  6. Validations
  7. Conclusion

Error Parsing

  1. Creating the Module
  2. Integrating into Login
  3. Integrating into SignUp
  4. Difference Between Success and Error Parsing
  5. Conclusion

Initializing Our Application with Data

  1. Adding Flags To Our Application
  2. Using Flags to Redirect Users
  3. Conclusion

Authentication

  1. Message Passing
  2. Local Storage and Port
  3. Conclusion

Search Recipes

  1. Defining the Types
  2. Creating the Decoders and Request
  3. Styling the View
  4. Conclusion

Favorite Recipes

  1. Saving the Recipe as Favorite
  2. Viewing the Favorite Recipes
  3. Fetching Favorite Recipes
  4. Deleting the Favorite Recipes
  5. Conclusion

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