(Functional) Reactive Web Development

This contains everything from my November 2014 presentation for the Houston Functional Programming Meetup.

References

Further Reading

Getting Started

To clone:

    git clone https://github.com/erewhon/reactive-web-presentation.git

Artifacts and building

To rebuild the presentation using Pandoc:

    cd presentation && ./mk

Presentation

Act 1

Plain HTML

jQuery

Act 2

To fetch BaconJS dependencies:

    cd act2-baconjs && bower install bacon

BaconJS:

RxJS:

Act 3

If you have Elm installed, run the following to start the Reactor:

    cd act3-elm
    elm-get install
    elm --make --only-js Schnippets.elm
    elm-reactor

Then open the reactor.

Presentation

The "./scripts/start" will open all of the examples through the reactor, plus the presentation.

Notes

To keep things somewhat of an apples-to-apples comparison, we try to minimize external dependencies. But we're also trying to keep the same semantics. Since the Elm code builds HTML in the code itself, in the Javascript-based examples, I'm doing everything in Javascript. That includes using Javascript templates. (Handlebars is my weapon of choice.)