Abadi Kurniawan

While Elm pretty much solves the tool and framework fatigue when starting a new front-end project, we still have the same issue for the back-end. Using Horizon in your Elm app can help alleviate the pain by reducing the amount of work you have to do in the back-end, so you can write more Elm code.

When starting a new project in JavaScript, you’re most likely going to spend a lot of time choosing the tools and frameworks to use, and then spend more time configuring them. Elm pretty much solves this problem by providing all the tooling you need out of the box, and by The Elm Community’s preference to have one way to do things, so you don’t have choose between 100 different packages just to solve 1 problem.

But, how about the back-end? You still have to choose all the stacks; from database, web server, programming language, and the framework. At least, until we have server side Elm, we still have the same problem here.

Wouldn’t it be great if you don’t have to worry about the back-end, and can just focus on writing Elm code and be happy? We can do that with Horizon. Horizon is an open source server designed for building real time application without writing any back-end code. With Horizon, all you need to do is to run the Horizon server, start writing Elm code, and be happy and productive.

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Abadi is a senior developer at Engage Software, a St. Louis based software company. He has been writing Elm in production since March 2016. He’s the author of Elm Credit Card and Elm Input Extra. Outside of work, he spends time with his wife and son, and works on making his house smarter so he can spend more time with his family and less on doing chores.