Elm for electron apps

[shivanshxyz]

Hey @dillonkearns ,

I noticed you have an elm-electron-starter which is not being maintained since 2017. I believe it wont be working now with elm 0.19 . I was interested in creating an electron ecosystem for elm 0.19 and would like to submit a proposal for it if either you or @razzeee or anybody from the mentors team would be available to mentor this project.

[razzeee]

Hey there,

while I find this interesting, I haven't touched electron in some years by now, so I'm probably not the mentor your looking for :)

[dillonkearns]

There's a framework which I think is in its early stages, https://package.elm-lang.org/packages/avh4/elm-desktop-app/latest/. This is an interesting space.

Myelm-electron tool doesn't work with Elm 0.19+, but elm-ts-interop is a pretty nice fit for that problem now because it can sync Elm custom types with TypeScript!

I think that syncing TypeScript types between Elm and Electron with elm-ts-interop is a good approach, but probably not something that would be at the scale of needing a full GSoC project. It would be more of a quick starter repo to show how to wire that up, or a tutorial.

I would say the more interesting problem that might be a good fit for a full GSoC project would be avh4/elm-desktop-app. I'm not sure if @avh4 is interested in mentoring this year, but that would be the project to get mentoring on with Elm and Electron I would say.

[avh4]

Yeah, I'd be open to mentor a project like that.

[shivanshxyz]

Great 👍. we can either discuss the goals of the gsoc project either here or on #gsoc slack

[avh4]

@shivanshxyz sorry I was mostly offline the past couple weeks. lmk if you're still looking for input for developing a proposal for electron stuff (here or on Slack)