Exploring a bit the packages repository, I've come accross the following 
options:

1. no examples/ dir, all in readme and documentation. 
(elm-array-exploration, ...)
2. examples/ dir with nothing more than `.elm` files (elm-decode-pipeline, 
elm-monocle, ...)
3. examples/ dir with an `elm-package.json` file (elm-transducers, ...)
4. examples/ dir with a `package.json` node builder (elm-kinto, ...)

I personally have a mix of (2) and (3). However I feel like they all have 
issues.

1. Sometimes, having a "ready to build" example is useful.
2. It relies on building from the root directory of the package (where the 
`elm-package.json` file lives). It also means that the example file can 
"cheat" by accessing non exposed modules.
3. If you add your `src/` dir in the json, then you can also "cheat" like 
in 2. If you do not, and you use your package as if it was loaded from elm 
packages, then you cannot verify that your latest modifications (not pushed 
yet) are working with your examples.
4. Well, it's a bit too heavy of a machinery most of the times. Plus it 
also requires an `elm-package.json` file anyway so the same issues as (2) 
and (3) apply.

*Do you think there is a best practice? Are there alternatives to those 
four?*

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