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You never leave the loading spinner state, but you don't throw. This actually inspired the Remote Data package which encourages you to break with the UI antipattern[0] where "result not yet loaded" is conflated with "we know there is nothing there." This pattern of handling those states has made its way into the official guide too, in case you want to start without using anything outside of the core library (a common pattern for new learners)[1]

[0] http://blog.jenkster.com/2016/06/how-elm-slays-a-ui-antipatt... [1] https://guide.elm-lang.org/effects/http.html