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Programming Elm
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Programming Elm

by Jeremy Fairbank
July 2019
Intermediate to advanced
310 pages
7h 26m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Install the Elm Compiler

The Elm compiler is built in Haskell.[46] You can download installation packages for macOS and Windows via the official Elm docs.[47] If you use a Linux distribution, or like to control installations through a package manager, you can install Elm globally via npm with this command:

​ npm install -g elm

The npm package provides the appropriate pre-built binary depending on your operating system.

Your Elm installation should include a few command-line tools:

  • elm repl - try out Elm in an interactive shell
  • elm init - bootstrap a new Elm project with elm.json and a src directory
  • elm reactor - run a development server to build Elm applications
  • elm make - compile Elm files
  • elm install - install Elm packages
  • elm publish - publish ...
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