// the take
A set of eight progressively complex Elm examples (counter, text field, form, HTTP, JSON, random numbers, time) demonstrating The Elm Architecture — the Model/update/view pattern that later inspired Redux. It's aimed at developers learning Elm for the first time, written by Elm's creator.
Each example builds directly on the last, so you see how Model/Msg/update/view scales from a trivial counter to HTTP and JSON decoding without jumping in complexity. The code is minimal and readable — no abstractions beyond what's needed to teach the pattern, which makes it easy to diff against your own growing app. Backed by the official guide, so the examples and the explanation of *why* the architecture works are kept consistent rather than diverging over time.
Last pushed in December 2019 — it predates several Elm ecosystem changes (e.g. Browser.application patterns, newer elm/http and elm/json APIs), so some idioms shown are no longer what you'd write in current Elm code. It only covers a single-module, flat Model — there's nothing here on composing nested modules or Cmd/Sub patterns across multiple pages, which is the actual pain point once an app grows past tutorial size. No tests and no CI, which is fine for a teaching repo but means regressions from compiler/library updates wouldn't be caught; a couple of examples already lag behind current package versions.
We read the README, the directory tree and a key source file in October 2026. Nobody pays to be listed. How we judge →