Crafting Faster in the Dark
summary
Elm compiles UI code fast enough to iterate without a browser: live edits produce 0.226 seconds feedback and a full cold rebuild around one second, enabling four-hour offline coding sessions that "just work" on first networked run. The codebase grows to quarter million lines and sustains production traffic (billions of answers) while reporting near-zero runtime exceptions via Rollbar. The workflow enforces exhaustive handling of user messages, immutability, and pure functions, so adding a favorited‑articles feature follows compiler-guided fixes rather than blind browser trial and error.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 2:59Rise of Web Apps
- 18:22code duplication
- 23:07Making it impossible to forget
- 31:25Elm Ecosystem
- 34:02RESOURCES
- 35:22Front-end code bases are growing
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