Pre-West Prep: James MacAulay

April 15, 2015

Talk: Composing interactive applications with Zelkova

James MacAulay's talk at Clojure/West is about Zelkova, his Functional Reactive Programming library.

Background

Zelkova is a Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) library inspired by the Elm FRP model. FRP is a model for building composable "signals" that maintain the state of the system over time. The talk promises to show us how to use it with Om to create interactive applications.

There are many resources out there, but I recommend this talk about Functional Reactive Programming in Elm by Elm's creator Evan Czaplicki. It shows the possibilities of FRP. His thesis, which describes the basic constructs of Elm, is surprisingly approachable. I recommend that highly. Also, James MacAulay himself did a Papers We Love presentation about it, which is worth watching.

About James MacAulay

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