How I Made an App with Guaranteed Type Safety Across the Frontend/Backend Divide (and everywhere else)

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I spent a lot of time recently getting a Phoenix/Elm app to the point where there are type guarantees at every boundary between the frontend and backend. The outcome has been incredibly satisfying and helpful. I talk here about how I did it and the process of working it out.

https://www.neurodynamic.online/writing/frontend-to-backend-type-safety

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I like to learn and use Elm, but it seems that it hasn’t had an update for many years now :frowning:

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Yes, the last stable release was 4 years ago.

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Thanks. I might try to relearn F#, and use the SAFE stack.

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Greate article! I’m interested in Elm and heard good things about it but haven’t tried yet.

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