Hey guys, I'm also very interested in running elm server side (especially node.js), and would appreciate to hear about your experiences & tips.
Thx ! On Friday, January 9, 2015 at 6:09:11 PM UTC+1, Sonny Michaud wrote: > > Everything Joey said is spot on. I should have pointed out that my > library simply takes care of running elm-compile for you and giving you > access to the ports from your Elm code. Basically, the point is to reduce > the friction of those additional build steps for you. There is also an > interoperability layer between the ports from Elm and Node EventEmitter > objects, so people familiar with the latter can concern themselves with the > details less. > > - Sonny > > On 01/09/2015 11:59 AM, Joey Eremondi wrote: > > @robcuz the important thing to remember is that Elm is just a way to > translate elm code into JavaScript. > > So really, you can run Elm with any platform that interacts with JS, > because the result of elm-make is JavaScript. So you use the code Elm > generates as part of a JS project. Ports makes this particularly elegant. > > Here's the tutorial on Ports: > http://elm-lang.org/learn/Ports.elm > > As for importing libs into elm-repl, that's not possible because it would > violate purity. It's easy to call Elm from JavaScript, but calling > JavaScript from Elm is tough, because there's no guarantee that JS code is > pure (performs no side-effects) or typesafe. So your best bet is to choose > the functionality you want to import and set up ports for them. > > On Friday, January 9, 2015 at 5:24:53 PM UTC+1, Sonny Michaud wrote: >> >> I wrote a NPM module that goes in the opposite direction - allowing you >> to import Elm code into your JS: https://www.npmjs.com/package/elm-loader >> >> - Sonny >> >> On 01/09/2015 08:45 AM, robkuz wrote: >> >> I havent found anything to declare the contrary but also nothing that >> says its possible. >> And if it is possible can I import JS libs into the ELM Repl? or how is >> that done? >> >> Thanks for clarification >> >> Rob >> -- >> 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 [email protected]. >> 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 [email protected] <javascript:>. > 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
