Topics include:<ul><li>Why Derrick chose to build Level as an SPA</li><li>Choosing Elm over React or Vue</li><li>How Elm is sort of like a language and framework combined</li><li>Moving to Phoenix from Rails</li><li>Why getting abstractions right feels easier in a functional language</li><li>How "contexts" help you organize your Phoenix code</li><li>The benefits of GraphQL over REST</li><li>What it looks like to implement GraphQL on the server</li><li>Avoiding n+1 queries with GraphQL</li></ul>Sponsors:<ul><li><a href="https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio">Rollbar</a>, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days</li><li><a href="https://cloudinary.com/users/register/free?utm_source=fullstackradio&amp;utm_medium=Sponsored_Podcast&amp;utm_content=fullstackradio_PodCast">Cloudinary</a>, sign up and get 300,000 images/videos, 10GB of storage and 20GB of monthly bandwidth for free</li></ul>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://level.app/">Level</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_S4Y8fdGKdsEWn4GcosEKw">Level live-coding screencasts on YouTube</a></li><li><a href="http://elm-lang.org/">Elm</a>, the functional programming language Derrick is using on the frontend</li><li><a href="https://guide.elm-lang.org/">An Introduction to Elm</a>, the official tutorial</li><li><a href="https://guide.elm-lang.org/architecture/">The Elm Architecture</a></li><li><a href="https://elixir-lang.org/">Elixir</a>, the functional programming language Derrick is using on the backend</li><li><a href="http://phoenixframework.org/">Phoenix</a>, the Elixir framework</li><li><a href="https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/contexts.html">Contexts</a> in Phoenix</li><li><a href="https://graphql.org/">GraphQL</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/absinthe-graphql/absinthe">Absinthe</a>, GraphQL implementation for Elixir</li></ul>

In this episode, Adam talks to Derrick Reimer about building his new app Level as an SPA using Elm, Phoenix, and GraphQL.

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