ElmWithRoc

[rasheedmhd]

An example for creating Elm applications that uses the roc basic-webserver

[Anton-4]

Ah, yes, the CI problem is the same as in #191, this will be fixed with #192.

 spawn ./examples/Arithmetic/main 20 4

Error: output was different from expected value.

[lukewilliamboswell]

Thank you @rasheedmhd -- this will be a useful example for people looking to build a backend for Elm apps. 😄 I've left some comments for you.

[lukewilliamboswell]

I feel like this example should include more routes, or interesting things to integrate/work with Elm.

Some ideas ... we could have the webserver include a JSON endpoint or two? Maybe an example authentication flow? Maybe do some CRUD on a sqlite database?

[Anton-4]

It's good to have a minimal example, we can add a more complex one later.

[lukewilliamboswell]

I agree we can add another more complex example later, but I do think we should consider more for the roc side here. My concern is that the current implementation may also confuse someone who isn't familiar with roc because the routing and servers-side parts are left out.

We can keep the elm minimal, because the reader is likely familiar with Elm, and add a little to the roc web-server -- maybe demo using roc-json or something.

I can contribute some ideas if that helps.

[Anton-4]

Yeah, good idea, roc-json is indeed what you would use, even for a simple webapp.

[Anton-4]

I've made issue #198 for this

[Anton-4]

I apologize for not making this clear, but I'm nearly finished with my review and changes. Please hold off on making changes until my commit is in.

Edit: Done

[Anton-4]

Thanks @rasheedmhd!

[rasheedmhd]

You're welcome and THANKS too