How big do the case statements in your update functions get? Or are your pages just not that complex?
I tend to like to keep modules in any language to a size that can be reasonably read and comprehended. That doesn't always happen. I've written some behemoths. But I tend to feel guilty when doing so. Mark > On Aug 8, 2016, at 9:42 PM, Richard Feldman <richard.t.feld...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > We have over 36,000 lines of production Elm code that we've been running over > a year. Before that we had a ton of React code, although Elm has since > overtaken it in terms of LoC. > >> Since I'm comfortable with React way to componentization, I can't understand >> why " flat is better than nested. " while getting big update and view >> functions. >> These huge files won't hurt the maintainability (and reusability) of the >> project ? Someone can expand in this area ? > > If the files feel too big, split them into separate files and import them. > That's not a big deal. > > What is a big deal, and a super common beginner mistake, is to split out > separate state ownership when you don't need to yet. > > Our React code base is full of components that each have their own local > state, because that's what React encourages. > > Our Elm code base has very, very few components with their own local state. > In most cases each "page" has its own state and state is not subdivided any > further than that. > > As far as maintainability goes, it's not remotely close. It's not just that > Elm code is more maintainable, it's that it is on a different planet of > maintainability. The gap between Elm and React is bigger than the gap between > React and MooTools. > > tl;dr I wouldn't worry about it. :) > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Elm Discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
