The story around this has changed.

If you want to pass some data into Elm from JS once, on initialization, you
are now served by:
http://package.elm-lang.org/packages/elm-lang/html/1.1.0/Html-App#programWithFlags

2016-08-17 12:48 GMT+02:00 Wei Tang <[email protected]>:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to define an "incoming port" that will *only be called once*
> when the app starts. I read some tutorials (http://danielbachler.de/2016/
> 02/26/ports-in-elm.html) and it says I can define a "non-signal" type
> port to do this. However, I get this error:
>
> 8| port graphName : String
>    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> You are saying it should be:
>
>     String
>
> But you need to use the particular format described here:
> <http://guide.elm-lang.org/effect_managers/>
>
> But I didn't find any useful information in the provided links.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> -- Wei
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