022: elm-tooling with Simon Lydell

Elm Radio

• Simon Lydell (twitter) (github)
• elm-tooling-cli
• elm-json
• Install elm-tooling into your npm dev dependencies
• npx
• elm-publish-action
• NPM's package.json scripts section
• NPM postinstall scripts
• Richard's recommendation to use npm config set ignore-scripts true, which can cause issues because it also skips the postinstall from your package.json
• elm-tooling-cli docs website

Elm tooling in ci

• GitHub Actions
• Simon's example GitHub Actions workflow with elm-tooling
• Separate steps for Elm tooling install and npm install to optimize caching
• npm run --silent (or -s) to reduce noise (more ways to do it in this StackOverflow answer)
• npm test and npm start to run start and test from your package.json scripts
• elm-tooling quick start page