I cannot help you much with any good advice on Elm, but regarding Elixir, the best bet for your money are the following options:

• Programming Elixir ≥ 1.6
• Elixir for Programmers (PragDave)

I really recommend buying both, read first the book and then watch the course, the latter will help you to think in Elixir.

Additionally, the 2nd version of Sasa’s book, Elixir in Action is also great.

As an additional advice, save the rest of your money if they are limited to buy Programming Phoenix ≥ 1.4 and Programming Ecto when they will be released.

Regarding, Elm, Programming Elm seems an interesting option, I highly value the quality of The Pragmatic Bookshelf.

Start with your universities library and ask if they can provide eaccess to books. My universities library was very flexible and if they hadn’t something in its printed version they asked 2 other universities in near area (less than 1h by public transport) for a lent, or if the student accepted they organized an electronic version from some umbrella library.

If this is possible at your place you can safe a lot of money!

To be honest, I resist to buy anything about IT or CS unless I get free access to an electronic version plus upgrade guarantees…

Of course I’m fine with renting books as well.

I have currently done and highly recommend the following:

And I’ve just started:

Haven’t read enough of it to recommend it is read before/after the others yet though.

Do you want to make a single page app? If not you may not need to learn Elm.

With regards to Phoenix, you’ll almost certainly want to read:

(I haven’t read it myself yet)

If not you may not need to learn Elm.

Elm is a good learning experience - BUT on a constrained budget I wouldn’t be able justify committing any funds to it as I suspect not that many places are going to be inclined to adopt it (unless you have a direct line to the CTO).

Don’t Write Macros But Do Learn How They Work

Elm certainly has a better developer experience - but in my estimation you will always need good JavaScript skills even if you use Elm (or should I say because you are using Elm and eventually you will want to use some JavaScript library you can’t live without) - it’s fashionable to hate JavaScript but it’s useful to learn to live with it somehow - like using it JavaScript Allongé, the “Six” Edition style.

Vue.js’s popularity is on the rise and I would describe it as cleaned up React/Mobx for Angular refugees - though lately I’ve been wondering whether marko.js is going to end up eating into the Vue.js fanbase.

But the question remains - do you really need an SPA?