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Re:Elm and Phoenix/Elixir in Production for France TV by Skinney on Sunday October 16, 2016 @02:04PM (#12719950)
The way Elm outputs JS today, it doesn't really have much to gain from being Closure compliant. Even uglify manages to remove most dead code from an Elm "blob", because Elm outputs javascript with a single scope. An Elm app is smaller than both a Cljs+React(om, reagent) and a JS+React app.
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Re:Elm and Phoenix/Elixir in Production for France TV by hellofunk on Sunday October 16, 2016 @02:48PM (#12720236)
Dead code elimination is only part of the benefits of Closure. The advanced compilation mode does a lot to optimize the final JS.
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Re:Elm and Phoenix/Elixir in Production for France TV by bjz_ on Sunday October 16, 2016 @04:34PM (#12720784)
I haven't had much luck the the advanced setting for Elm - seems to optimise too much away, and I get undefined field errors when I try to run the code.
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Re:Elm and Phoenix/Elixir in Production for France TV by hellofunk on Sunday October 16, 2016 @05:55PM (#12721212)
That's because Elm does not output JavaScript in the standardized format for Closure.
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Re:Elm and Phoenix/Elixir in Production for France TV by Skinney on Monday October 17, 2016 @07:45AM (#12724182)
Closure doesn't really have a standardized format. It does, however, not like that you mix string and dot access for object (obj['str'] vs obj.str), which Elm does a couple of places.
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