Minimising javascript-side code in a ports module

[mattpiz]

Just in case it slipped through your searches, this discussion had interesting examples of how to make retries automatically by chaining tasks in one unique command. It might help in your quest to reduce the amount of JS code, or it might be useless.

Retrying failed requests... without the headache

I needed a generic way to retry requests that fail. I did not want to litter my model with extra state or clutter my update function by having to handle additional cases for each request’s code paths. I found panosoft/elm-cmd-retry but it depends on native code and meets neither of the requirements set above. Wishful thinking It should be intuitive to use decoder |> Http.get url |> Retry.retry |> Task.attempt DataReceived It should allow us to retry with configurati…