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The Elm Live Editor
https://ellie-app.com
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Selecting boilerplate #72

Open sporto opened 5 years ago

sporto commented 5 years ago

Ellie uses to have a dropdown where you can select the boilerplate to start with. This was super useful. This seems to be gone entirely, or am I missing something?

It would be great to bring this back with options like:

Thanks

tbash commented 5 years ago

You're not missing anything. I think this is a good idea, I'll add it to the backlog.

danneu commented 5 years ago

I came here expecting to create this same issue.

I often find myself writing a disproportionate amount of hello-world setup just to test a small idea in Elm. As already mentioned, being able to choose between Browser.sandbox vs Browser.element alone would be huge.

Another thing I'm often doing is creating my own UI chrome just for some exploratory programming. For example, imagine an Ellie template that sets you up with the elm/parser version of https://pegjs.org/online with a toy parser stubbed out and an input/output pane so you can hit the ground running.

Thanks for your work, Ellie is incredible.