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Wolfgang LoderWeb Applications with Elmhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2610-0_4

4. Tooling and Libraries

Wolfgang Loder1 
(1)
Vienna, Austria
 

In the previous two chapters, we set up our development environment and learned the basics of the Elm language. Now, we want to explore the tooling the Elm platform provides and get an overview of standard libraries.

This chapter will cover the following topics:
  • How to test small code snippets with the REPL

  • Ways to get a head start on a project with scaffolding

  • How we can build our project

  • An overview of standard libraries that come with the Elm platform

REPL

It seems that any platform needs to have an REPL (read-eval-print-loop) nowadays, or it is not taken seriously. It is certainly a matter ...

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