bulma-templates VS Elm

If you're a beginner who wants to give it a go with bulma, or just an enthusiast who wishes to slap some content into existing template and have a web page, or maybe build some theme upon existing layout, take a look at Bulma Templates repo.

I use a simple serverside framework such as ExpressJS or FlaskJS, which routes URL requests to HTML page responses.

Served by NGINX on a Linux server. I host with DigitalOcean for $6/month

I use a CSS Framework template. I like Bulma for its simplicity: https://bulmatemplates.github.io/bulma-templates/

Summary of things to google:

- simple Serverside framework for

- Digital ocean nginx tutorial

- CSS Framework Template

I just take a Bulma template, and edit the CSS styles within its html.

If i feel ambitious, I install v/ node, then edit the sass (compiles to css)

https://bulmatemplates.github.io/bulma-templates/

Typically:

1. Generate an express app with --view=ejs (ejs is virtually the same as HTML but lets you inject js into your html)

https://expressjs.com/en/starter/generator.html

2. Display & edit a simple html page.

3. ???

4. Profit

- Web Portfolio showing 3 projects. -- for example, check out the template here [1] called "Portfolio" -- take it, repurpose it with your own content. Get it online. Add your web portfolio URL to your resume.

- Github/Gitlab (to show your code)

- LinkedIn presence

Basically: Show you have the skills. And put yourself "out there" i.e. market yourself

[1] https://bulmatemplates.github.io/bulma-templates/

The index.html file in the site folder is the landing page. The file uses the responsive Bulma CSS library that requires no JavaScript. I picked a template and modified it for this landing page.

Elm [1] is based on a similar idea. Build your app from pure functions that return HTML tags.

[1] https://elm-lang.org/

You also wouldn't really be creating your own new programing language. You would be creating something that can run JavaScript by following JavaScript standards and syntax. You might be able to add some non-standard features of your own on top of those standards, or include your own standard library of helpers or utilities, but you can't completely make a new or alternative language and then load it in the browser (or at least not by reimplementing ECMAScript standards... you actually can make your own language that runs within any Javascript enviroment, if you provide an interpreter or compiler that transforms it into valid JS. Some people have done something like this, eg Elm: https://elm-lang.org/).

You should at least have a look at https://elm-lang.org/ it is a pure functional language like Haskell (although with fewer fancy syntax/type classes) but it has some lovely libraries for visualisation and even with plain elm (+ elm-ui) doing string transformations can be easily done.

I get it. However, the whole point of using Unions to narrow your types, ensure only a set of possible scenarios can occur, and only access data of a particular union when it’s safe to do so. That’s some of what pattern matching can provide, and 100% of what using switch statements in TypeScript with their Discriminated Unions can provide. Yes, it’s not 100% exhaustive, but TypeScript is not soundly typed, and even Elm which is still has the same issue TypeScript does: You’re running in JavaScript where anything is possible. So it’s good enough to build with and much better than what you had.

The beauty of a language like Elm (and other lambda-calculus / functional programming inspired languages) is that there's very little transformation involved in going from an idea to code. And that seems to have a big impact on getting things done.

I think the most fun and approachable way for beginners to build games with functional programming is with Elm [1].

See a few (small, demo) games built by the community in [2] .

Notice Elm has abandoned the FRP approach in favor of Model-View-Update [3].

[1] https://elm-lang.org/