92: Derrick Reimer - Building an SPA with Elm, Phoenix and GraphQL

Topics include:Why Derrick chose to build Level as an SPAChoosing Elm over React or VueHow Elm is sort of like a language and framework combinedMoving to Phoenix from RailsWhy getting abstractions right feels easier in a functional languageHow "contexts" help you organize your Phoenix codeThe benefits of GraphQL over RESTWhat it looks like to implement GraphQL on the serverAvoiding n+1 queries with GraphQL Sponsors:Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 daysCloudinary, sign up and get 300,000 images/videos, 10GB of storage and 20GB of monthly bandwidth for free Links:LevelLevel live-coding screencasts on YouTubeElm, the functional programming language Derrick is using on the frontendAn Introduction to Elm, the official tutorialThe Elm ArchitectureElixir, the functional programming language Derrick is using on the backendPhoenix, the Elixir frameworkContexts in PhoenixGraphQLAbsinthe, GraphQL implementation for Elixir