Custom Html/Css when using Elm reactor

[Ronn Ross]

Hello, I'm new to Elm and I'm having trouble with adding custom html/css to Elm reactor. I'm able to run 

elm-reactor 

with no issue and when I navigate to localhost:8000 I see a list of all my files (.elm, .css, .html). I'm able to click on the name of an .elm file and see it run in the browser without styles. Likewise I can click the wrench and see same page (no css) with time travel debugging. Neither of these pages allow for hot-swapping. I have to manually refresh to see my changes. 

If I click on my index.html file I see the app as a whole, but when I make changes elm-reactor does not rebuild my code. 

I added 

  <script type="text/javascript" src="/_reactor/debug.js"></script>

and 

var app = Elm.fullscreenDebug('app', 'App.elm'); 

This help with the css and time travel debugging, but not hot-swapping. In fact elm doesn't build my files at all. 

Is there a way to get hot-swapping, time travel debugging, and css all working together? 

[Kurt Harriger]

Hot swapping does not work for me either. I am using OS X and there appears to be at least one known issue with hot swapping on the mac:

https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-reactor/issues/168

So if you are on OS X it might be that?

Reactor doesn't support external css yet.

https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-reactor/issues/152

I have gotten time travel to partially work. I can rewind time but after rewinding, the program would no longer accept new input. Not sure if this is known issue or some self inflicted problem yet.

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[Alexey Zlobin]

I'm working with Elm in LMDE + Chrome environment. And hot swapping doesn't work there.

I think the right question is: what parts of reactor work when we use HTML instead of plain Elm?

[Noah Hall]

It's possible currently with reactor by adding a stylesheet tag for
HTML - see an example here
https://github.com/eeue56/css-reactor/blob/master/Main.elm

It doesn't refresh when your CSS changes, but it does when your Elm changes.

[Noah Hall]

Ah, sorry - I see this is to do with hotswapping. It'll remove the
need for a HTML file though, at least

[Ronn Ross]

Noah,

That actually helps a lot. That solved one of my big issues of not being able to style pages when using elm reactor. I think hot swapping might be solved over here https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-reactor/issues/168. Thanks for your help. 

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[Alexey Zlobin]

Looks good. If I link javascript with port handling will it work?