[elm-discuss] [early prototype] Elm-Data: a server loading code generator

2017-01-18 Thread John Kelly
I've done some work in this realm. See: https://github.com/john-kelly/elm-postgrest. The library is domain specific to a restful backend following the postgrest specification, however, there are a number of ideas that I think similar libraries could benefit from. 2 in particular that I think ar

[elm-discuss] [early prototype] Elm-Data: a server loading code generator

2017-01-17 Thread Max Goldstein
Hi everyone, I've been thinking for several months now about a useful abstraction for loading data from the server. It's painful to work with HTTP and JSON directly because you lack: caching, logic to not send a request already in flight again, error handling, and so on. I came upon the idea t