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Elm: Getting Started

Elm is designed to be front-end web application language and framework. This course will show you how to use Elm to build fast, efficient, and reliable front-end web applications.

Mike VanSickle - Pluralsight course - Elm: Getting Started
by Mike VanSickle

What you'll learn

For a front-end web development technology to be taken seriously, it must offer something truly unique that makes it stand out in a saturated field. Applications written in the Elm language are lightning fast and almost immune to run-time exceptions. This makes Elm a very attractive option for developers whose customers are increasingly sensitive to performance and quality. In this course, Elm: Getting Started, you'll get acquainted with Elm by learning why Elm is a functional language, and the strengths that that brings. Additionally, you'll be introduced to the standard Elm architectures that have been proven to yield fast, reliable, and extensible applications. Finally, you'll explore Elm's 4 core tools are and how to use them. By the end this course, you'll know everything you need to build your own Elm applications.

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Mike VanSickle - Pluralsight course - Elm: Getting Started
Mike VanSickle

Michael VanSickle is an application architect in Akron, Ohio. He is a mechanical engineer by training and a software engineer by choice. He is passionate about learning new programming languages and user experience design.

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