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Elm for Absolute Beginners
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elm-setup-guide.md

Elm is an exciting new programming language that hopes to transform the way people write web apps. It's inspired by a lot of functional programming ideas in languages like haskell, but hopes to make them accessible to web developers. Recently, I hoped to get started trying out some of the examples on Elm's website, but found the directions lacking. What follows is a recap of my journey to getting a working Elm setup on my computer.

tldr;

  1. Install Elm
  2. mkdir new-project; cd new-project;
  3. elm-package install evancz/elm-html
  4. elm-package install evancz/start-app
  5. Put your code in Main.elm
  6. Type elm-reactor
  7. Open your web browser to http://localhost:8000/Main.elm

Long Version

Here's the longer version of how I stumbled around to figure this out...

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Other stuff

There's also Elm's online editor, which is mostly cool for observing code, not writing your own things IMO. Great very first place to star though.

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