I just retired the handlebars templates that I have been using to render static content - they have now been replaced with Elm views which are rendered server side. The result is not very fast running under Java8+Nashorn, but I am not overly concerned with that; its relatively static content so I'll put in a caching layer at some point to take care of the performance issue.
Here is my plan: I will use the same view logic on client and server side. In server mode, the result is Html Never. In client mode, when logged in, the user will be able to select and edit content directly on the page; the result will be some Html msg type. Markdown is the principal format in which my content is written, so when selecting some content to edit, it will be replaced with a markdown editor and a tool bar for other functions needed for the edit. I don't need anything too fancy to begin with - a text box and a set of save/cancel buttons should be good enough. I have been thinking about how to do this, whether I should use some fancy markdown editor written in javascript or as a webcomponent or what. But I think a view built with higher order functions will really take advantage of what can be done with functional languages and leverage Elm to its advantages. The way I will share the same view logic to handle both situations, is to pass a function into the view. In server mode, the function will render content as Html Never. In client mode it will inject all the editor functionality into the same view. This means breaking out the view code into lots of little functions to render different pieces of content, then building up the editor function to use them OR flip to an editable mode. The content model I am using is fairly rich and extensible. The editor will also need functions to navigate and manipulate the content tree, add completely new content, or add new pieces of child content within a content type that is more structured and consists of many pieces of content combined together to form a page. Its somewhat inspired by work I did on the mygov.scot site, but more carefully re-designed. Should keep me busy for the first quarter of 2017. Happy coding :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
