Toward a New Dev Experience with Leporello.js: Designing a Livecoding Environment
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The talk explains how functional programming trends in JavaScript (spurred by React) affect development and debugging practices, and what unique developer-experience opportunities FP provides. It presents a new IDE concept called Leporello.js aimed at livecoding for functional programming and describes its design and development.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:07Excel as programming env
- 5:20Imperative problems
- 8:32Functional alternative
- 11:22Leporello.js: Fibonacci demo
- 18:26JS functional subset
- 21:12Function call tree
- 26:56Time-travel debugging
- 31:21Print debugging vs debugger
- 35:34Break: duck hunt quest
- 36:52React-like API
- 45:29Scalability of functional
- 48:18Test-driven development
- 50:46Debugging tests and errors
- 51:53Leporello.js resources
- 52:17Q&A
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