[elm-discuss] Is elm-reactor actively maintained?

[Casper Bollen]

First of all, elm-reactor is a great tool!

However, I was looking at the elm-reactor repository, and there seem to be
a great number of issues that are not addressed. Can I expect changes of
elm-reactor in the near future (like being able to specify an index.html
file) or will it remain as it is.

[Ossi Hanhinen]

elm-reactor is a part of the Elm platform. It is always bundled with a new
Elm version. So yes, it is maintained but maybe not in the same way as you
expected. Evan likes to look at issues as a bigger whole rather than
one-by-one. The "Code is the Easy Part" talk explains this way of thinking
nicely, in case you're interested.

As for the problem at hand, you can actually use your own HTML with the
elm-reactor already, if you use the correct source for the compiled code.
See here for an example index.html:
https://github.com/ohanhi/elm-taco/blob/master/index.html#L16-L17

Just remember: if you use this trick, you need to point your browser to
http://localhost:8000/index.html and *not the Elm file* like you normally
would.

Post by Casper Bollen
First of all, elm-reactor is a great tool!
However, I was looking at the elm-reactor repository, and there seem to be
a great number of issues that are not addressed. Can I expect changes of
elm-reactor in the near future (like being able to specify an index.html
file) or will it remain as it is.