Elm Town 47 - A Cool, Easy Way To Start Learning Haskell

Stöffel talks about Jetpack, a simplified build tool that NoRedInk built to replace webpack, and how it started his journey to learn Haskell and eventually end up on the team behind NoRedInk's next-generation, Haskell-based server-side architecture.

Thank you to our sponsors, Culture Amp and Joel Clermont.

Special thanks to Xavier Ho (@Xavier_Ho) for editing and production of this episode!

Recording date: 31 Aug 2019

Guests

• Christoph Hermann (Stöffel) (@schtoeffel)

Show Notes

00:00:00 Intro and sponsors
00:01:41 How Stöffel got into Elm

• NoRedInk

00:07:07 Jetpack

• Jetpack
• Haskell
• webpack
• elm-live

00:12:22 From Elm to Haskell

00:14:59 Unsupported open source & making the repo public

00:16:30 The features of Jetpack

00:18:42 Smart development rebuilds with Shake

00:21:13 Other Haskell at NoRedInk

00:22:40 Full-stack type safety: Servant and Servant Elm

• Servant
• Servant Elm

00:25:31 elm-verify-examples

• elm-verify-examples

00:30:21 Running Elm as a command line tool

00:31:39 Auto-detecting tests in elm-test

• elm-test
• elmi-to-json

00:36:04 Assets in Jetpack

00:37:10 Engineering management separate from team leadership

00:40:09 One-on-one meetings

00:41:01 Success as a manager

00:42:58 Self-improvement as a manager

00:44:37 Puffins: Haskell-based architecture team

00:49:18 Outro