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Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

Just some notes and references for myself.

In bash, you can access your C:\ drive via /mnt/c/
~ = C:\Users\MLM\AppData\Local\lxss\home\mlm and is different from your Windows user directory C:\Users\MLM

How to google things

I'm t9md

My editor history: Vim > Emacs > Vim > Atom

A vision for data interchange in Elm

How do you send information between clients and servers? What format should that information be in? What happens when the server changes the format, but the client has not been updated yet? What happens when the server changes the format, but the database cannot be updated?

These are difficult questions. It is not just about picking a format, but rather picking a format that can evolve as your application evolves.

Literature Review

By now there are many approaches to communicating between client and server. These approaches tend to be known within specific companies and language communities, but the techniques do not cross borders. I will outline JSON, ProtoBuf, and GraphQL here so we can learn from them all.

Elm 0.19.1 Linux x64 statically linked binary

This document describes how to build a statically linked binary of Elm 0.19.1 for Linux x64 using docker. The binary is built using Alpine Linux in order to easily link it statically to musl libc. This is how the official Elm 0.19.1 Linux binary is built.

Why?

Why build a statically linked binary?

Elm is currently distributed using npm. For Linux x64 (but this applies to any architecture), this requires to have a single x64 binary that works on all Linux x64 distributions. This is considerably easier to achieve by building a statically linked binary that will only depend on the Linux kernel ABI and System Call Interface but not on userpace libraries (see here for a compatibility survey of a dynamically built executable).

Why use docker?

Elm Types Glossary

There's a lot of type terminology and jargon going around when discussing types in Elm. This glossary attempts to list some of the most common type terms along with synonyms, terms from other language communities, examples, and links to more detailed articles on each topic.

Custom Type
Constructor
Unit Type

	-- Api Effect Manager

	effect module Api where { command = MyCmd } exposing (request, Response)

	import Task exposing (..)
	import Http
	import Process
	import Json.Decode as Json exposing ((:=))
	import Native.Api

	module TextThing exposing (..)

	import Html.App as App
	import Html exposing (..)
	import Html.Attributes exposing (..)
	import Html.Events exposing (..)
	import Dom.Scroll
	import Dom.Size
	import Task

	module A exposing (..)

	import Json.Decode as JD
	import Json.Encode as JE


	type alias User =
	{ id : Int
	, theme : Theme
	}

	module Main exposing (main)

	import Browser
	import Browser.Navigation
	import Html exposing (..)
	import Html.Attributes exposing (..)
	import Html.Events exposing (preventDefaultOn)
	import Json.Decode as Json
	import Url exposing (Url)