Josh, won't you experience either message or function explosion doing 
direct communication like that?

Let's say I have components nested 3 levels deep: MainComponent, which 
contains AdminComponent, which contains 3 components [ApplesComponent, 
OrangesComponent, and BananasComponent]

Each of the 3 child-most components need to load their respective resource 
(apples, oranges, and bananas), and display the current loading state (not 
requested, loading, failed, success)

If each of the 3 child components need to proxy requests through the 
AdminComponent, you're going to get Msgs in the AdminComponent like this:

type Msg



On Tuesday, July 5, 2016 at 6:13:28 PM UTC-4, Josh Adams wrote:
>
> I want to understand what you're saying because it seems I'm missing 
>> something. Let's say we're 3 nested components deep. The deepest child 
>> wants to load a resource. Rather than creating a http Cmd directly, the 
>> child should return a message to its parent asking for the resource. That 
>> parent would then also repeat this process and ask it's parent for the 
>> resource. Eventually the message arrives at the root component, and the 
>> root component can generate the Cmd necessary to fetch the resource - 
>> whether that is from an http request, or a mock service. Is this what 
>> you're suggesting?
>>
>
> That is, essentially, what I'm suggesting, though others here might 
> proffer up different ways to get at the same thing.  In general, though, I 
> like thinking of children as just spewing out Msg and having the results of 
> those flow back into them from the top.
>
>

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