Javascript to Elm

We avoid starting and do a bunch of other things to make us feel productive, like cleaning out our bash_profile, or making new Dockerfiles. Eventually we buckle down and get started on the last part of pulling React out of our project.

We are currently avoiding meownotes for no real good reason, other than we're not really sure where to start. So, since we are super successful at that, we expolore all the other things we've done, besides what we should be doing!!

The red square. If you recall from episode 46, we were trying to get a web component (a div in the shape of a square, with a red background) to render in our application. Well, we figured that out and a whole lot more.

It's here, it's here. We all woke up in the morning to a fantastic gift, we're talking all things Elm 0.19 was released today. Let's dive in and take a look!

We want to dive in and actual tackle a web component. And what better way than with meownotes. We are going to try and upgrade the text input from textArea to super duper markdown editor using JS Lib custom web component.

There was a presentation locally on ReasonML, so I went and learned. We'll compare it to our experience in React our current favor Elm, and what we can take away from this new player in the frontend space.

Based on 2 events. Luke Westby's talk at Elm Conf, and the most recent episode of the frontend Happy Hour podcast about.... web components. So I've heard about them, and meh, didn't seem to solve any immediate problems I've been having, but I don't actually know enough about them to actually apply them to any problem I encounter!

Do it already?!?!? What's the hold up? Where are we with new notes page in Elm ? I needed to make a list. So here it is, let's go through it.

We've done some great refactor work, but forgot one of the rules to our project. Keep it working, keep it in production. And our elm branch for new Notes is neither in production, or even fully functionaly in our dev environment. We always fine some small gotcha's when we have to double back, let's get to them!

So we have been avoiding wrapping up our new Note page converting it over to Elm, and in that respect we've been doing a pretty good job I'd say. I feel like it was a huge first lift to get most of it working, which is why I've been hesitant to dive back it, I know, at least for me at this point, it's going to be a bit bumpy, but what the hell, makes for good podcasting.