The parents of each of these elements have to manually map the state changes, they have to be aware of the internal state of the components, just as I was sayin

The parents of each of these elements have to manually map the state changes, they have to be aware of the internal state of the components, just as I was saying. Check this out: https://github.com/rtfeldman/elm-spa-example/blob/master/src/Page/Home.elm https://github.com/rtfeldman/elm-spa-example/blob/master/src... Go to the bottom, see how it manually maps the child events of the feed update? You have to duplicate that code for every single child component. All the other steps I described are there also.