Is there any good way to dynamically get the correct url for the endpoint, e.g. localhost vs url in production, so I don’t have to manually change it before deploying? My current thought is to send it as a flag when I init Main.elm, but I don’t feel that is the best option. Is there a better way?

I’ve used either a Config.elm file, or a config.js file loaded and sent to init. Typically this is not checked into source control, with an example file provided.

[image] teatimes: send it as a flag when I init Main.elm that’s what I do :see_no_evil:

I tend to define a Config record and pass it round the application where it is needed: type alias Config = { mainApiRoot : String , searchApiRoot : String , otherApiRoot : String , whateverParams : ... } For quick start during initial development, you can just hard code it: co…

[image] teatimes: Is there a better way? Better than using flags: Use the URL provided by Browser.application.init to pick the right URL for the endpoint. You can check if that URL is on localhost and decide the endpoint URL based on that. This approach supports more diverse scenarios than …

We have config files for each environment, sharing the same function signatures. Our build script chooses the right one and creates a symlink to it. This is inspired by https://github.com/iosphere/elm-i18n . Then, we can import the config module (which is a symlink to either of the actual implementat…

I personnaly use this repo https://github.com/simonh1000/elm-webpack-starter and added a webpack.EnvironmentPlugin along with dotenv and inject the host through flags to an AppConfig type. Since I’m building the app to a Docker container in production, I can easily infer the same variable but with a…

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stoft October 27, 2019, 9:54am 2

If you’re serving your app from the same endpoint you should be able to use relative urls.

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