I was just looking at some code written for an old rails app, trying to make sense of it: screwing around with JavaScript, manually manipulating the DOM, trying to hunt down bugs, what a nightmare. It seems that I am not alone in this world. With the front end frameworks garnering all the attention these days, I thought I might take a little peak into ELM. Why not React, or Angular, or Ember?

Here is a little cheat sheet of resources that I’ve come across so far, which might be useful to you, apart from the Elm documentation.

Starting an Elm Project

I was looking for the rails equivalent of rails new hello-world-app and I found just the thing here. Plus it comes with extras too: create-elm-app.

The main commands, after setting it up include:

• elm-app start and if you are building for production then:

• elm-app build.