[leshow]

Extracting to a helper function doesn't change the fact that there is boilerplate that must be overcome by brute force when composing "components". Every sub update function needs to be manually wired into the main update function since the introduction of Html.app. Libraries like elm-return make this a bit nicer to work with, but because of the restrictions in what Elm will let you do with it's "magic" there is no alternative.

I don't write PureScript, I can't help you there.

[Skinney]

Don't understand how typeclasses would help you here. If you want immutable single source of truth, which is what Elm provides, you would do the same thing in Javascript/React and Clojurescript/Om.

I follow the same pattern in a 10k Javascript/React app I'm working on professionally. I don't see another way of doing things. Not that I'm looking very hard, cause this really isn't a problem.