Richard Feldman

Richard has spent 24 years programming, almost half of them professionally. Most of his career has been as a web programmer, where he has often found himself pushing the browser to its limit in the pursuit of ambitious user interfaces. He first used Java-Script before jQuery came out, was among the earliest contributors to React after it was open sourced, and started writing Elm before it had a core team.

Today Richard is a member of the Elm core team, is a frequent conference speaker on the topic of Elm, and is the organizer of the Philadelphia Elm Meetup. He is also an instructor for Frontend Masters, where he teaches an “Introduction to Elm” as well as an “Advanced Elm” course. He maintains several widely used open source Elm projects, including elm-test, elm-css, elm-spa-example, and elm-json-decode-pipeline.

Some have said he’s “into Elm,” but he’s not sure where they got that wild idea.

books by Richard Feldman

Elm in Action

  • April 2020
  • ISBN 9781617294044
  • 344 pages
  • printed in black & white

Elm in Action teaches you the Elm language along with a new approach to coding frontend applications. Chapter by chapter, you’ll create a full-featured photo-browsing app, learning as you go about Elm’s modular architecture, Elm testing, and how to work seamlessly with your favorite JavaScript libraries. You’ll especially appreciate author and Elm core team member Richard Feldman’s unique insights, based on his thousands of hours writing production code in Elm. When you’re done, you’ll have a toolbox of new development skills and a stunning web app for your portfolio.