pacebyelm

Because sometimes you need to sooth those sore JavaScript muscles with a little Elm byelm

Example front-end for Runby Pace (https://runbypace.com) written in Elm

Installing prerequisites

To play with pacebyelm, you'll need to install elm and json-server with npm. I also recommend elm-live.

Install npm

npm (Node Package Manager) is a package manager comes with Node.js

https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/installing-node

Install Elm

Once you have npm installed, use it to install Elm

https://guide.elm-lang.org/install.html

 npm install -g elm
 npm install -g elm-live

Install json-server

json-server is a fake REST API.

https://github.com/typicode/json-server

 npm install -g json server

Running pacebyelm

1. Clone or download this repo

   git clone git@github.com:tygerbytes/pacebyelm.git

2. Enter the pacebyelm directory

   cd pacebyelm

3. Start the json-server

   json-server json-server/db.json

Note that db.json only has a few entries at present. You'll only be able to look up paces for 5K race times of "20:00". (Hopefully that sentence makes sense once you see the interface and look at the contents of db.json.)

At first I was going to use the api of https://runbypace.com, but I accidentally broke it when I switched on SSL and haven't had the time or need to fix it. Meanwhile json-server fills the need nicely.

3. Start elm-live

   elm-live Pacebyelm.elm --open --debug --output=pacebyelm.js

That command will automatically launch your default browswer and navigate to http://localhost:8000.

4. Play around with Elm! :)