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If Elm had a dedicated library for io with Postgres functions (stored procedures) would then become very attractive to my company, for a very ambitious project

If Elm had a dedicated library for io with Postgres functions (stored procedures) would then become very attractive to my company, for a very ambitious project we are developing. we store all state and logic inside db safely firewalled by stored procs, so i'm looking for UI focused language/ toolset that is productive, functional and produces atractive ultra reliable, performant html js. I don't feel good about the Sencha tools, my team currently uses, so I'm looking around for alternatives. ur/web looks very interesting aswell but the limited adoption with only 1 albeit genius developer, is a bit offputing

ac2u 11y ago
I don't understand, elm is for your browser based application, which can't communicate with postgres anyway except through a web server sitting in the middle.
- aflinik 11y ago
  That's true, although I see no reason Elm couldn't be compiled to server-side JS running in Node. I'd love to see some full stack solution that would abstract away separation between backend and frontend (like Meteor perhaps) using some sane programming language and architecture. Having built lots of SPAs and APIs serving as a backend for them I always feel that what's really relevant is modelling your data and domain logic (which tends to happen on a server side) and the UI consuming this data on the other end. Everything in between – endpoints exposing the data on the backend, frontend machinery to pull that data into client – seems to be totally arbitrary and implementing it is nothing short of a grind.