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Don't split up your codebase before you need to: The most useful Elm tip that I shouldn't have ignored

Nimmo on July 13, 2018

My background is mostly in JavaScript, and when building JavaScript applications, I like to have them separated pretty heavily. This came about aft...
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Chad Windham

as someone who recently started looking into/learning elm, this was an awesome read, thanks for the post!

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Nimmo

Thanks! I hope you're enjoying your foray into Elm as much as I am. I've just watched this talk from Elm-Europe 2017 which I'd advise watching as well for better detail around how to expand your Elm codebase more organically: youtube.com/watch?v=XpDsk374LDE

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James Carlson

Ditto! I've tried various approaches -- am now about 80% through a rewrite of an app I worked for a year. Just four files now, and the going is really smooth.