package.elm-lang.org VS coffeescript

Also the fact that their package manager is strongly coupled against https://package.elm-lang.org/. There is no way to override it. This means that if that package site ever goes down, you will be left with an unbuildable project. Seems pretty risky to me.

Imagine, for example, you have a component library that you don't want to publish to the public package.elm-lang.org. How do you make that available just within your company?

Not to be silly but I was getting ready to do my port & all but clicking on "source" from with package.elm-lang.org takes me to elm-charts, not elm-plot.

Elm has packages prefaced with the repo owner, so its mdgriffith/elm-ui and not just "elm-ui".

If you're dealing with some kind of currency it's better to use a Decimal type which has few packages on the ecosystem.

If you are looking for a complete API documentation you should be browsing https://package.elm-lang.org/ ; I still find it lacking compared to other programming languages, but it's definitely more complete that the starting guide.

There are two ways of structuring state. Record with each page's state in its own field OR a custom type with the variants containing the state for the page (this is what you see in elm-spa-example or package.elm-lang.org). The tabs you describe behave like the first approach.

Elm is a strongly typed functional language, compiler, package manager, and framework. You write in the Elm language, and it compiles to JavaScript for use in the browser. The Elm compiler has 2 basic modes of development, and production. It optionally has a REPL if you want to test some basic code. The package manager uses it’s own website and structure using elm.json, instead of package.json. The framework is what Elm is most known for, and was the inspiration for Redux.

I was considering doing just that, using nginx server. I was using Evan's git repo for Elm packages (website: https://package.elm-lang.org/) (git: https://github.com/elm/package.elm-lang.org ) where he does uses that. So I think I will try this first and then consider deploying the binary if I can. Thanks for the advice!

That said, there are ways to embrace the JS ecosystem without actually using JavaScript. Many popular languages have transpilers that will convert code written in that particular language into something that will run natively in a web browser (in other words, JavaScript). Even TypeScript is a language that gets transpiled into JavaScript, so it's not that outrageous of a concept, it just gets more difficult to do the further you get away from languages that don't already look like JavaScript.

As a front-end web developer, do you still use CoffeeScript or jQuery? Unlikely, as TypeScript, ES/TC39 and Babel (and the retirement of Internet Explorer thanks to @codepo8 and his EDGE team) have helped to transform JavaScript into some kind of a modern programming language.

CoffeeScript

On the other hand, companies choose React because that's where all the developers are. If you want to build something that can be maintained years from now, you better not choose the next hype train that goes straight to nowhere (remember CoffeeScript ?). You want something battle tested that has stood the test of time, where you won't have trouble finding developers to scale once you need to. And nobody ever got fired for choosing React.