Newbie question… There is a value from the model of Main.elm that I would need to access in a module, the module being itself imported in Main…hence the circular import… is there a way around this, or I just have to rethink my design? I believe it’s the latter… At first, I wanted to have this val…

[image] Yannick971: I needed it to be initialized on the app startup. (This value is computed from the current time, to give you context). You can pass arguments (like the current time if you got it as a flag) to the init from another module. [image] Yannick971: Can I just use init witho…

Reading between the lines, it sounds like you are trying to build your project using a “fractal architecture” with a bunch of modules that each define init/update/view, etc. Most extracted modules in Elm apps are not structured this way. Instead, they are usually just a data structure and some funct…

Thanks @pdamoc and @joelq for your help! The way I tried to design this is so messy that its hard to explain, huge red flag! :slight_smile: I am still experimenting with Elm and FP. So maybe its better to explain what I would like to do and maybe you can share with me how you’d design this? Main.…

First, if you have 5 sets of data it would be better to model each as a remote data. You can take a look remotedata-http for more information. This assumes that you might want to display partial data (data from some of the 5 endpoints as it arrives). If you want an all or nothing approach, you might…

Thanks a lot, very nice solution, I will try this… (its a public API I don’t have access to the backend). Maybe the title of my post should be changed to something more in tune with the topic actually, I don’t have the required permission.

Alright so I tried and got stuck here: getTimestamps: Int -> Cmd Msg in my example the time value is in the Main Model so it would be: getTimestamps: Model -> Cmd Msg but its the same thing… The compiler complains because the initialCmd should be of type Cmd and not Model -> Cmd Msg in main: m…

[image] Yannick971: The compiler complains because the initialCmd should be of type Cmd and not Model -> Cmd Msg in main: I guess it should be: main = Browser.element { init = \_ -> ( initialModel, initialCmd initialModel) It is advisable to give functions as little data as possibl…

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Yannick971 September 28, 2020, 6:47pm 9

That is good advice… thank you!

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