My Elm experience <3

• After React, this was the 2nd web framework I had ever interacted with at the time, in 2021.
• At university I had mostly used imperative languages like Java, C, C++, PHP.
• Thinking in a functional style was not easy at first, but shortly became natural and intuitive to me.
• It took me 7 days to learn the Elm basics and build this small test app.
• After this, I jumped straight into a real-world production project, where I successfully deployed over 100 pull requests, and many thousand lines of code.

About Elm

Elm is a purely functional programming language and a frontend web framework. If you are not used to functional programming, it will be challenging at first. But once you learn and use it for a while, it becomes a pleasure to write code.

• Most of the bugs reveal themselves at compile time.
• No hidden runtime exceptions will be breaking your production code.
• Functions have no side effects.
• Application components are decopled and don't break eachother.
• If you want to make a change, you just do it without the fear of breaking something else, as the compiler will guide you through all the code that needs to be updated to accomodate your change without breaking anything else.
• Error messages are informative and you immediately know what to do.
• No more undefined runtime errors. Everything is always defined.
• Application flow is easy to follow in code.
• Elm developers are friendly, helpful, and always excited to talk about Elm.

The elm tree is also a wonderful tree.

How to run

Run elm make src/Main.elm then open index.html file locally in your browser.