New year, new attempt at learning ELM by building something that interests me. I am not a coder so I’m here to ask for guidance in setting up the project, organising the work tasks, and later on some code help :slight_smile: Mostly I’m getting lost in the obscure plumbing of the structure I think …

Some answers: Can I save state in cookies or somesuch? Saved state would probably be too large for cookies, but saving state in browser using LocalStorage could be an option. Is ELM enough to handle it? No. You would need a bit of JavaScript if you save state in browser. (Or backend for diff…

Removing saved state would make the project a lot simpler. How interested you are about being able to save state versus the text adventure mechanics? But even without saved state, this would be quite large project for a beginner, possibly even impossible.

I suggest writing it first as a headless command-line REPL so that you don’t need to make decisions about view code and browser packaging now. @jxxcarlson posted a great example of a REPL harness on this forum in April. (You might also want to explore how the recently-released elm-spa v5 builds the …

Thanks for the answers! :heart: [image] malaire: Saved state would probably be too large for cookies, but saving state in browser using LocalStorage could be an option. Sounds great :smiley: [image] malaire: If you save state in browser (and don’t use any external HTTP calls) it will be…

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