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Since people in this thread are likely to be elm enthusiasts and know what's going on in the ecosystem, what is the largest high quality elm app you know about

Since people in this thread are likely to be elm enthusiasts and know what's going on in the ecosystem, what is the largest high quality elm app you know about and what is the largest high quality elm app that is open-source that you know about? I've been doing backend work for a while and I'd like to see what is possible these days with elm.

notduncansmith 11y ago
I think NoRedInk, who employs Evan (author of Elm); they also host Elm meetups in SF and are a really friendly bunch. On an unrelated note, I haven't found much prior work here but I think Elm on the backend (via Node.js) could be fantastic.
- pedalpete 11y ago
  I've been thinking about this myself. I've been looking at doing some typescript stuff as I can share code between back and front-end still (and I'm moving into doing some IoT stuff in JS). I'd consider Elm if I could run it everywhere, but it feels to me like at the moment it is browser focused.
- Gaelan 11y ago
  There's always Haskell. :) On a slightly more serious note, I wonder if Haskell and Elm are similar enough that model-style code could be written in a shared subset and run on both sides.
  - pdamoc 11y ago
    They are close enough that people have produced tools like elm-servant that generates Elm code from Servant code. https://github.com/mattjbray/servant-elm https://github.com/mattjbray/servant-elm
- pdamoc 11y ago
  There are experiments with using Elm on the server via Node. Since you mentioned NoRedInk, they had a sample project that bundled several available technologies: https://github.com/NoRedInk/take-home https://github.com/NoRedInk/take-home It is worth noting that with the advent of 0.17, Elm on server is getting closer to reality. The issue now is for Evan to properly understand what the best approach is. My hope is that we will end up with something like Servant in Elm. In a lot of things Elm is not aiming at WOM but WOFO. In other words, not for libraries that gets most word of mouth but libraries that get word of f-ing obvious. That requires a more deliberate and slower process but the payout is huge.
bootload 11y ago
"what is the largest high quality elm app you know about and what is the largest high quality elm app that is open-source that you know about?" http://builtwithelm.co http://builtwithelm.co is a good place to start. My favourite big example is Dreamwriter (https://dreamwriter.co https://dreamwriter.co) by Richard Feldman. Warning not updated since e0.15.1 ~ https://github.com/rtfeldman/dreamwriter https://github.com/rtfeldman/dreamwriter
- Ciantic 11y ago
  Do you know any examples heavy with animations? E.g. similar that can be achieved with CSSTransitionGroup in React. While I can't use Elm in production app, I could dabble on it side projects, but I'm a little bit put off by the examples it has, they seem to not contain complicated appear/leave animations or animation managers. I think it's not yet solved?
  - bootload 11y ago
    Update: No, https://twitter.com/rtfeldman/status/730575929336942593 https://twitter.com/rtfeldman/status/730575929336942593 Probably best to ask this on the elm discuss group @ https://groups.google.com/d/forum/elm-discuss https://groups.google.com/d/forum/elm-discuss ---- I'll ask @rtfeldman [0] cf https://twitter.com/rtfeldman/status/730433179564179456 https://twitter.com/rtfeldman/status/730433179564179456 [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rtfeldman https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rtfeldman

notduncansmith 11y ago

I think NoRedInk, who employs Evan (author of Elm); they also host Elm meetups in SF and are a really friendly bunch. On an unrelated note, I haven't found much prior work here but I think Elm on the backend (via Node.js) could be fantastic.

pedalpete 11y ago
I've been thinking about this myself. I've been looking at doing some typescript stuff as I can share code between back and front-end still (and I'm moving into doing some IoT stuff in JS). I'd consider Elm if I could run it everywhere, but it feels to me like at the moment it is browser focused.
Gaelan 11y ago
There's always Haskell. :) On a slightly more serious note, I wonder if Haskell and Elm are similar enough that model-style code could be written in a shared subset and run on both sides.
- pdamoc 11y ago
  They are close enough that people have produced tools like elm-servant that generates Elm code from Servant code. https://github.com/mattjbray/servant-elm https://github.com/mattjbray/servant-elm
pdamoc 11y ago
There are experiments with using Elm on the server via Node. Since you mentioned NoRedInk, they had a sample project that bundled several available technologies: https://github.com/NoRedInk/take-home https://github.com/NoRedInk/take-home It is worth noting that with the advent of 0.17, Elm on server is getting closer to reality. The issue now is for Evan to properly understand what the best approach is. My hope is that we will end up with something like Servant in Elm. In a lot of things Elm is not aiming at WOM but WOFO. In other words, not for libraries that gets most word of mouth but libraries that get word of f-ing obvious. That requires a more deliberate and slower process but the payout is huge.

bootload 11y ago

"what is the largest high quality elm app you know about and what is the largest high quality elm app that is open-source that you know about?" http://builtwithelm.co http://builtwithelm.co is a good place to start. My favourite big example is Dreamwriter (https://dreamwriter.co https://dreamwriter.co) by Richard Feldman. Warning not updated since e0.15.1 ~ https://github.com/rtfeldman/dreamwriter https://github.com/rtfeldman/dreamwriter

Ciantic 11y ago
Do you know any examples heavy with animations? E.g. similar that can be achieved with CSSTransitionGroup in React. While I can't use Elm in production app, I could dabble on it side projects, but I'm a little bit put off by the examples it has, they seem to not contain complicated appear/leave animations or animation managers. I think it's not yet solved?
- bootload 11y ago
  Update: No, https://twitter.com/rtfeldman/status/730575929336942593 https://twitter.com/rtfeldman/status/730575929336942593 Probably best to ask this on the elm discuss group @ https://groups.google.com/d/forum/elm-discuss https://groups.google.com/d/forum/elm-discuss ---- I'll ask @rtfeldman [0] cf https://twitter.com/rtfeldman/status/730433179564179456 https://twitter.com/rtfeldman/status/730433179564179456 [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rtfeldman https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rtfeldman