I’m working on an intermediate level Elm book called Practical Elm for a Busy Developer. I wanted to post a quick note about it for people who are not on my mailing list, since I've just added a huge new section and the book is 70-80% complete now.
I chose not to include the basics (Elm syntax, the Elm architecture etc.) in the book because I think they are adequately covered by other sources. Instead, it will guide you through the practical tasks of creating applications with Elm: building UIs, styling, working with JSON, interacting with JavaScript code, testing and so on.
What does the book cover?
The focus of the book is on practical topics:
- A discussion of options for creating UIs and styling
- Approaches and tools for preventing and finding bugs
- JSON parsing (the most commonly reported problem Elm newcomers face)
- Making server requests and working with commands
- JS interop and ports
- A discussion of code organisation as your application grows
- A discussion of integrating Elm into a JS application
- An in-depth look at language features such as pattern matching
- Tools for being more productive when writing Elm code
Practical Elm is currently available as an “early access” book, with some of the content yet to be included.
