92: Derrick Reimer - Building an SPA with Elm, Phoenix and GraphQL
- Author
- Adam Wathan
- Published
- Tue 03 Jul 2018
- Episode Link
- https://share.transistor.fm/s/2ed4457f
Topics include:
- Why Derrick chose to build Level as an SPA
- Choosing Elm over React or Vue
- How Elm is sort of like a language and framework combined
- Moving to Phoenix from Rails
- Why getting abstractions right feels easier in a functional language
- How "contexts" help you organize your Phoenix code
- The benefits of GraphQL over REST
- What it looks like to implement GraphQL on the server
- Avoiding n+1 queries with GraphQL
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Links:
- Level
- Level live-coding screencasts on YouTube
- Elm, the functional programming language Derrick is using on the frontend
- An Introduction to Elm, the official tutorial
- The Elm Architecture
- Elixir, the functional programming language Derrick is using on the backend
- Phoenix, the Elixir framework
- Contexts in Phoenix
- GraphQL
- Absinthe, GraphQL implementation for Elixir
