Technologie Elm a její použití pro front-end webové aplikace

The main goal of this thesis is to analyse and evaluate a technology for front-end web development named Elm. The theoretical part sets the context for Elm in respect to web technologies and analyses its parts which consist of a platform and a language. The chapter analysing the Elm platform describes its various aspects and focuses on the practical side of the matter. For its distinctive properties and importance the Elm language is analysed more extensively. This thesis describes principles of the functional programming paradigm and deals with the strong static type system of Elm with an emphasis on the development of applications with a good quality. This is followed by a description of the basic program constructs of the Elm programming language with a comparison to its imperative counterparts. The practical part evaluates the production readiness of the Elm technology using comparison with another, well established technology, the React library. Firstly, the methodology is defined which is followed by a description of reasons that led to a way in which the research is carried out. The comparison consists of solving different practical tasks in each technology and comparing the various steps leading to a solution. Lastly, the thesis summarizes results of the comparison and mentions advantages and disadvantages which come by using the Elm technology.