Declarative UIs without CSS with elm-ui
Instructor
Flavio Corpa- Elm
>=0.19.1
elm-ui is a language for layout and interface design. This is a novel iteration on declarative styling where you can use Elm types and functions to define your UI in a declarative way.
The novel part is that it does not require you to know CSS to be used. The API is very simple and can be learned quickly!
The approach taken by elm-ui is based on two big ideas: Getting the compiler to verify as much of the layout and styling as possible by defining them in Elm code Enabling refactoring capabilities of Elm for UI code.
đ± This is a Fresh Course
Staff reviewed: 4 years ago
This course is new and up-to-date. It will provide you with a different paradigm to view design, layout, and CSS.
What you'll learn
- Use a declarative mindset for building UIs
- Positioning elements, including centering
- Creating a layout with rows and columns
- Building a form
Quick Facts
- elm-ui allows you to define styling with a minimal knowledge of CSS
- elm-ui is not only useful as a layout system but also on the component/element level
- elm-ui is more logic based than CSS based
- There is no cascade when declaring elm-ui
- elm doesn't have statements, it has expressions
Questions to Reflect Upon:
- What's the best approach to building UIs?
- How should I balance the tradeoffs between functionality and accessibility?
Learner Reviews
- Learnera year agoWhat did you like about this course?
Love this one! A bit fast at times and the view is like 640x480 pixels but the content is alright!
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