Thank you all for the comments.

John,

Can you point out what are the currently existing charting/graphing
features in elm? I am going to implement a simple simulation without any
graphics (just displaying numbers and controls perhaps) first. It seems
that when I need to start with graphics elm/svg should be enough?

Erkal,
That looks great! I will try it out as well.

Joshua,
I learned about the update the hard way, I was reading 0.16 docs when the
update happened and everything changed. It was quite shocking (my first
experience with a young and developing language). But I think I know what
to expect and the downside of adopting something still in development.

-s-

Salomon Turgman Cohen
Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering
Kettering University
(810)249-4045

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Joshua Mendoza <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Since the Elm architecture needs to have a consistent model all the time
> you can think of the variables and preconditions of an experiment as part
> of that model and everything you need to do is to provide a view (HTML
> code) that reflects this state (I was looking at your Compressed Gas Spray
> example, all buttons and controls can be modeled that way very well).
> Consequently, every control change needs to be reflected in an update
> function that changes one piece of this model (variables a preconditions
> corpus) and the wiring (commanding actions, effects, consequences that
> change the model) needs to be done with these concepts:
>
> http://guide.elm-lang.org/architecture/user_input/forms.html
> http://guide.elm-lang.org/architecture/effects/time.html
>
> My personal recommendation if you're to follow the Elm path, is to wait a
> little bit since there has been an important upgrade in the core Language
> and many of us are struggling to keep up with the changes (I mean,
> everything got easier but previous work and libraries have been rendered
> useless because of API changes).
>
>
>
> On Sunday, May 15, 2016 at 8:09:49 AM UTC-5, Salomon Turgman Cohen wrote:
>>
>> Dear Elm community,
>> I am interested in building little educational demos like those shown in
>> this website http://www.learncheme.com/simulations The ones in that
>> website require player software that is almost 800 MB,and I feel we can do
>> better. It seems like Elm is a good tool to approach this, but I'm
>> wondering if it is overkill. Maybe there is a simpler approach I can
>> follow? What are the advantages of using Elm for something small like this
>> over the alternative (a combo of JS Libraries)?
>>
>> Thanks for your advice.
>>
>> -s-
>>
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