[mumblemumble]

Tangentially - I've been thinking of trying Elm for a desktop app. Are there any recommended ways to do it? I was looking at elm-desktop-app as a quickstart option, but it seems to be abandoned.

[wolfadex]

I've seen some people mention using https://tauri.studio/en/ for building desktop apps with Elm, and others using https://www.electronjs.org/. I've also toyed with https://deno.land/x/webview though it's still very young.

I don't think elm-desktop-app is abandoned, just that the author is working on other things at the moment. The author is has been working on another Elm tool, and fixed a couple elm-format bugs too.

Feel free to reach out in the Elm Slack or Discourse if you have any more detailed questions. I know there's been discussions in the https://discourse.elm-lang.org/ around desktop apps too if you want to search there.

[mjaniczek]

I have used Elm with Electron (without any starting template, sorry) for a presentation software (https://lyricslides.com) and it was fine. You set up a few ports and let Elm be the brain while Electron does the side-effecty stuff like dealing with native file selection dialogs and so on.