A project template and generator for building Elm applications with Parcel, Cypress, and Netlify integration.
Elm Batteries Included is a project template and generator that helps developers quickly set up Elm applications with modern development tooling. It provides a complete starter kit that integrates Elm with Parcel for bundling, Cypress for testing, and Netlify for deployment, solving the problem of configuring these tools together from scratch.
Elm developers who want a production-ready project setup without spending time configuring build tools, testing frameworks, and deployment pipelines.
Developers choose Elm Batteries Included because it provides a complete, opinionated setup that handles common development tasks, offers hot reloading, testing integration, and one-command deployments, allowing them to focus on building their Elm applications rather than tooling configuration.
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Integrates elm-hot with Parcel to reload code and styles while maintaining application state, speeding up development iterations as shown in the demo.
Includes Cypress for end-to-end testing and elm-test for unit/fuzz tests, providing a robust testing framework out of the box, with examples like demo.spec.js.
Uses Elm's optimize flag and CSS purging with purgecss to minify and optimize assets, ensuring efficient deployment as detailed in the production build section.
Offers one-command deployments to Netlify for preview and production, simplifying CI/CD with commands like 'npm run deploy' and 'deploy:prod'.
Supports Tailwind CSS and PostCSS with autoprefixer, enabling utility-first styling and vendor prefixing, as highlighted in the designing section.
Heavily relies on Netlify for hosting and serverless functions; switching to other providers requires manual reconfiguration, which isn't covered in the template.
Locked into Parcel and Cypress, making it difficult to customize or replace these tools without breaking the setup, as admitted in the README for alternative configurations.
Documentation focuses on basic setup and usage, lacking in-depth resources for complex scenarios like integrating custom backends or troubleshooting tooling issues.