maxgurewitz/elm-server

npm package for compiling, serving, and hot-reloading Elm code

elm-server's Issues

Feature request: Option to rewrite paths to serve start-path

Firstly tx for a very handy npm lib.

Had a hard time coming up with a short description, so here's a bit of context:

• I have a single page app using elm-transit-router
• When navigating between pages it changes the browser-url according to how I set up routing

So a typical scenario in my sample app (https://github.com/rundis/albums):

• elm-server Main.elm --output main.js --start-path index.html
• I get an url like: http://localhost:3001
• I navigate to an artist listing page and get a browser-url: http://localhost:3001/artists
• I make a change in some elm file
• elm-server recompiles as expected, but my browser does a get request to http://localhost:3001/artists
  which I suppose is fair play, but unfortunately that obviously results in a 404.

That sort of ruins the flow quite a bit. So it would be super awesome if there was some solution to handle this scenario. Maybe a glob-pattern to tell the server to serve (say index.html) for any url in the glob pattern ?

Can't find `elm-make`

Hi,

Here's what I get in the console:

events.js:141
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: spawn /usr/local/lib/node_modules/elm-server/node_modules/elm/Elm-Platform/0.17.1/.cabal-sandbox/bin/elm-make ENOENT
    at exports._errnoException (util.js:860:11)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:178:32)
    at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:344:16)
    at doNTCallback2 (node.js:450:9)
    at process._tickCallback (node.js:364:17)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:459:11)
    at startup (node.js:136:18)
    at node.js:972:3

I have elm-make in $PATH:

$ which elm-make
/usr/local/bin/elm-make

There's also another one in

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/elm-server/node_modules/elm/binwrappers/elm-make

But the path elm-server is trying to run doesn't exist.

Currently Broken - Don't Use

Trying to run the buttons example from the current Elm repository (https://guide.elm-lang.org/architecture/user_input/buttons.html) yields the following. This repo is broken and seemingly hasn't been updated in a while. Don't use it.

patientplatypus:~/Documents/elmTree:08:21:19$elm-server ./Main.elm
events.js:182
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: spawn /Users/patientplatypus/.nvm/versions/node/v8.1.4/lib/node_modules/elm-server/node_modules/elm/Elm-Platform/0.17.1/.cabal-sandbox/bin/elm-make ENOENT
    at exports._errnoException (util.js:1022:11)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:189:19)
    at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:366:16)
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:102:11)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:161:9)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:607:11)
    at startup (bootstrap_node.js:158:16)
    at bootstrap_node.js:575:3