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92: Derrick Reimer - Building an SPA with Elm, Phoenix and GraphQL
Category: Technology
Duration: 01:02:07
Publish Date: 2018-07-03 12:03:00
Description:

In this episode, Adam talks to Derrick Reimer about building his new app Level as an SPA using Elm, Phoenix, and GraphQL.

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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