vite-elm-template VS juralen-elm

After that point I started looking into how Elm works from the web dev perspective with resources like Elm in Action and Frontend Masters courses (first working in ellie-app-for-elm-dev then upgrading to vite-elm-template).

Using vanilla HTML and JS is nice, but most of the time at work or in larger projects we're using some sort of build tooling to have a more streamlined experience. I'm personally a big fan of Vite, the frontend tooling solution by the creator of Vue. I maintain a Vite template for building Elm applications, which utilized the excellent Elm plugin for Vite to achieve hot module reload and directly importing our .elm files into our Javascript.

This was a template I created to scratch my own itch. As a Vue developer, I love working with Vite, and really wanted a base template for Vite that I could use to build Elm applications. vite-elm-template is a basic Vite template intended to get you started writing in Elm without having to spend time configuring everything yourself. Unlike elm-pages or elm-spa, it's not a framework of any sort. If you want to bring in single-page application features, or other functionalities, you will have to build those in yourself. That said, it's perfect for getting started with a basic environment.

Obviously basic addition and subtraction isn't worth the extra overhead of using web workers. Tasks that require large computations (either complex calculations, or just parsing a lot of data) are ideal for this situation. One side project where I've used a web worker required potentially processing more than 2 megabytes of data, which, when done in the main thread, caused the entire app to freeze. Moving the same calculation to a web worker didn't speed up the calculation, but it did allow the UI (and the CSS) to continue running at full speed. Here's the web worker from the side project if you're interested!