Brian Hogan Digital Ocean

Brian Hogan writes, edits, makes music, and builds things on the Internet. By day he works for DigitalOcean's Community team helping make technical articles easy to follow.

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Elm and Phoenix - The Future of Web Development?

Elm and Phoenix bring functional programming, simplicity, speed, and maintainability to web development. In this talk you'll learn to use Elm to create a reactive UI and Phoenix to build a real-time backend to power that app, and you'll see why forgetting everything you know can be good for you.

Building a robust modern web application involves server side and client side code with many dependencies you'll have to manage. But what if you could start over and avoid JavaScript? Elm is a powerful front-end language designed for making web applications. And Phoenix is a powerful web development framework that makes building scalable back-end services easy. Together, these technologies let you build a modern web app quickly that you'll be able to maintain over time.

In this talk, we'll explore how these languages work, how we use them together, and how we architect a real-time application. We'll discuss the pros and cons, and you'll see how to get started on your own projects.