# App crashes if the repo name contains '.'

**URL:** <https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/app-crashes-if-the-repo-name-contains/1474>\
**Category:** Request Feedback\
**Created:** [July 10, 2018, 7:39am UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/app-crashes-if-the-repo-name-contains/1474 "2018-07-10T07:39:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![slmjkdbtl](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.elm-lang.org/slmjkdbtl/32/1085_2.png) [@slmjkdbtl](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/slmjkdbtl)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 7:39am UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/app-crashes-if-the-repo-name-contains/1474/1 "2018-07-10T07:39:04Z")

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My repo name contains a ‘.’ and it causes the built app crash, I have to change the repo name to some random repo

Why do elm use the repo name internally? And why don’t elm directly convert repo names to javascript variable names?

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**Author:** ![dta](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.elm-lang.org/dta/32/1917_2.png) [@dta](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/dta)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 6:44pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/app-crashes-if-the-repo-name-contains/1474/2 "2018-07-10T18:44:03Z")

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This doesn’t directly answer your question, but if you want to use a `.` in your module name, you can use subdirectories.

For example:  
src/elm/Some/Module.elm is is imported using `import Some.Module`

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/elm_lang/original/1X/50a05e53677a2c3b47776d7abd0f113eb50193a1.png) [@system](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2018, 6:44pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/app-crashes-if-the-repo-name-contains/1474/3 "2018-07-20T18:44:03Z")

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