Typed Functional Programming in JavaScript with Alfonso García-Caro, Richard Feldman, Phil Freeman, and Jordan Walke

NOTE: You may be wondering why this week is a rerun. Well, we actually did have a show this week at The Strange Loop and it was awesome! But I made a mistake by not setting my computer to use the microphone interface for the audio and so the sound is just using my MacBook's built-in microphone, which resulted in really terrible audio quality. I'm really sorry about this. I hope you enjoy this rerun of one of the more popular shows that is relevant to the type of conversations you would hear about at The Strange Loop.

Description:

"Tie your hands to free your mind" is a mantra you hear that applies really well to the constraints that you put on yourself by embracing statically typed languages and functional programming. We're going to hear from various people about their respective visions of typed FP in JS.

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Links, Picks, and Tips:

Richard Feldman@rtfeldman

Links

• How to use Elm at Work
• NoRedInk

Tips

• Don’t wait for a rewrite! Introduce a new language incrementally. Build a small thing that works. Get that small thing in production. Then expand.

Picks

• Elm in Action
• Frontend Masters 2-day Elm Workshop
• 6 months of Elm in Production
• Building a Live-Validated Signup Form in Elm

Phil Freeman@paf31

Links

• PureScript project website

Picks

• Pux library

Jordan Walke@jordwalke

Links

• Flow
• ML

Picks

• Vim-mode-plus: Atom plugin recreating Vim’s editing paradigm
• Real World OCaml: Great technical book, free online version

Alfonso García-Caro@alfonsogcnunez

Picks

• Fable
• F# for fun and profit - Learning F# and FP
• Ionide - F# plugin for Atom and Visual Studio Code

Kent C. Dodds@kentcdodds

Picks

• React30 episode 006 - Origins of React with Jordan Walke
• Midwest JS next week - tickets are still available!
• My frontend masters workshops are next week! Webpack Deep Dive and Writing an Open Source JavaScript Library - tickets are still available for in person and online.
• Ragtime the musical

Brian Lonsdorf@drboolean

Tips

• Use an ide or vim setup
• Learn to reason about type signatures alone
• Constraints are great, but start simple and dial them up later
• Write simple code w/o abstractions until you feel the pain - then learn abstractions to solve that

Picks

• Math primers
• What a bijection is not
• Functional Geekery Susan Potter

Pam Selle@pamasaur

Picks

• Mies: Minimal ClojureScript template

Dan Abramov@dan_abramov

Picks

• create-react-app

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