In the material-components-web-elm package there is an element, the Menu, that emits an event when it is destroyed. Normally this isn’t a problem, but there is an interaction with Elm’s diffing that results in Elm code crashing. An example is the MCVE below, which crashes when the back arrow is pres…

Event emitted during DOM node removal can destroy type safety

system Closed September 10, 2020, 9:38am 4

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