Why?
Some CLI utility apps I want to make have complex logic. After failing two or three times, I realized that to implement such things, imperative code may not be the best thing.
After reading The Elm Architecture (and because I can not learn Elixir or Clojure at the moment) I decided to try to implement the philosophy of Elm and Redux in a Python framework. Python because it
- interacts with system much better than JS
- is cross-platform enough, without being Java which ICNLATM
- comes installed on most systems I'd work on
Take a look at the examples/
You may need to:
export PYTHONPATH=$PWD:$PYTHONPATH
Progress so far
I am focusing on CLI only. So you have to press <Enter> key often.
I am really inspired by the questions posed by Evan in the blockquotes of lessons given at guide.elm-lang.org, as such I have tried to address them all done all three examples
- all signal/msg are derived from a hidden
Msgclass - a custom switch case construct is provided, it alerts you when a case
is missing, when a case is repeated, or a case is not of
Msgtype - whole app's state is in a single immutable dictionary
- (pseudo-)pattern matching