[elm-discuss] Elm-reactor and static files (images & videos)

[Fernando Martinez]

Hello All!
I'm new to Elm and trying to build a small "playlist/carousel
app" (basically, a list of videos and images that passes one after the
other) to learn elm and try some ideas about ports.

I think I'm having a newie problem but I could not found a solution or
leads to a solution (or I couldn't undestand them :P), so I'm writing here.

I'm using the elm-reactor to develop and like very much the debbugger and
the automatic building.

So, my first question is: is it posible to serve static files (images and
videos) from the elm-reactor?
(From what I could observe, it returns an empty response. perhaps I'm
missing something?)

As a work around, I tried using a common http server to serve the app and
was able to have hotreloading using a file system watching library to
automatically build and reload the browser. But I lost the debugger :(

So, the second question, depending on how the first one goes. is: is there
any way to open the debugger outside of elm-reactor?


Thanks you very much!
Fernando.

[Fernando Martinez]

Hello again!

I kept investigating and found a possible fix. I just created a Pull
Request here:

https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-reactor/pull/228

Do let me know if I'm missing anything regarding contributions guidelines
or anything like that, don't want to start contributing here overriding
workflows and community ceremonies :P

Thanks very much!
Fernando




El sábado, 22 de abril de 2017, 19:33:29 (UTC-3), Fernando Martinez

Post by Fernando Martinez
Hello All!
I'm new to Elm and trying to build a small
"playlist/carousel app" (basically, a list of videos and images that
passes one after the other) to learn elm and try some ideas about ports.
I think I'm having a newie problem but I could not found a solution or
leads to a solution (or I couldn't undestand them :P), so I'm writing here.
I'm using the elm-reactor to develop and like very much the debbugger and
the automatic building.
So, my first question is: is it posible to serve static files (images and
videos) from the elm-reactor?
(From what I could observe, it returns an empty response. perhaps I'm
missing something?)
As a work around, I tried using a common http server to serve the app and
was able to have hotreloading using a file system watching library to
automatically build and reload the browser. But I lost the debugger :(
So, the second question, depending on how the first one goes. is: is there
any way to open the debugger outside of elm-reactor?
Thanks you very much!
Fernando.

[Fernando Martinez]

Hello again!

I kept investigating and found a possible fix. I just created a Pull
Request here:

https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-reactor/pull/228

Do let me know if I'm missing anything regarding contributions guidelines
or anything like that, don't want to start contributing here overriding
workflows and community ceremonies :P

Thanks very much!
Fernando

[Ian Mackenzie]

You should be able to use the debugger outside of elm-reactor if you
compile with the --debug flag, for example

elm make --debug Main.elm --output main.js

You should then be able to use whatever you want to serve the HTML/JS and
you'll still get the debug overlay.

Post by Fernando Martinez
Hello All!
I'm new to Elm and trying to build a small
"playlist/carousel app" (basically, a list of videos and images that
passes one after the other) to learn elm and try some ideas about ports.
I think I'm having a newie problem but I could not found a solution or
leads to a solution (or I couldn't undestand them :P), so I'm writing here.
I'm using the elm-reactor to develop and like very much the debbugger and
the automatic building.
So, my first question is: is it posible to serve static files (images and
videos) from the elm-reactor?
(From what I could observe, it returns an empty response. perhaps I'm
missing something?)
As a work around, I tried using a common http server to serve the app and
was able to have hotreloading using a file system watching library to
automatically build and reload the browser. But I lost the debugger :(
So, the second question, depending on how the first one goes. is: is there
any way to open the debugger outside of elm-reactor?
Thanks you very much!
Fernando.

[Arnau Orriols]

FWIW,

As a work around, I tried using a common http server to serve the app and

Post by Fernando Martinez
was able to have hotreloading using a file system watching library to
automatically build and reload the browser. But I lost the debugger :(

Elm-live <https://github.com/tomekwi/elm-live> is basically what you have
described. I use it in all my projects as replacement of reactor, and I'm
quite happy.

You should be able to use the debugger outside of elm-reactor if you

Post by Fernando Martinez
compile with the --debug flag, for example
elm make --debug Main.elm --output main.js

You can use this:

elm-live Main.elm --output main.js --warn --debug --open