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ohanhi / elm-native-ui

[CLOSED] Experiment: mobile apps in Elm using React Native.
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Contribution Guide? #70

Closed jonlaing closed 7 years ago

jonlaing commented 7 years ago

Hi, I'm very new to Elm, but I'd like to get into it. I'm a full-time JS dev though, and I'm a big fan of React Native. I'd love to contribute what little time I have to furthering this project, but I'm not exactly sure where/how to get started.

If there were a guide on what the preferred way to contribute was, that would be great. Also, is there a guide somewhere on how you're doing the Elm->JS interop like in the src/Native directory? My cursory google search didn't turn up anything like what I'm seeing in this repo.

Thanks!

ohanhi commented 7 years ago

Hi @jonlaing!

As much as I appreciate the enthusiasm, this is very much an experimental project, and as such it is definitely not the best place to get into Elm. Things may change rapidly, and much of the code is comparable to working on the core of Elm itself. There are many pure Elm projects needing helping hands, though -- those would be much nicer to work with!

The native code, in particular, is something pretty much no one in the Elm community should write. It is the most effective way to introduce runtime exceptions in your Elm programs, and all regular Elm users should use ports instead. This is why there is hardly any documentation on Native.

I hope I didn't come out as dismissive, and that all this makes sense to you. Good luck with your endeavors in Elm!

kylebakerio commented 7 years ago

Does that mean your official advice to anyone who isn't familiar with elm is to go get familiar with elm first before diving in here? (Just clarifying.)

ohanhi commented 7 years ago

Yes, that is precisely what I meant. :)