This workshop needs some pre-setup as I'll only have 5 thumbdrives with vms on them. It's around 3GiB to download with virtualbox/docker and about 700MiB with nix: https://github.com/qfpl/reflex-realworld-workshop/blob/master/SETUP.md.

Reflex-dom is a remarkably awesome way to write frontend web applications in Haskell. Reflex DOM is built from Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) primitives defined in a library called Reflex.

Writing apps in reflex-dom is a little weird at first because it's a whole brand new paradigm to structuring your programs. Just like the jump from imperative programming to FP, jumping into FRP is a tricky process of rewiring your brain to fit the new model of thinking. It can be very difficult to appreciate the power and architectures that you can from this transition while you are still learning the basics, which naturally makes it difficult to be motivated to put in the work.

In this workshop we will implement parts of the "real world demo", a demo blogging application designed as a way to test frontend frameworks with things like backend calls and frontend routing. There will be a lot of skeleton and example code already written and be very directed, so it's -- as with the talk -- it is going to be more getting a high level feel than learning all of the fundamentals. It is the hope that the fast paced guided intro will allow you to do the rest of the learning at your own pace later.