For someone just starting with Elm which version between 0.18 and 0.19 would you recommend?

[DevotionGeo]

@peerreynders

Why not just start with Programming Elm and wait and see if you need all that other stuff?

That’s a very good suggestion. I also initially thought to go that way, but in that case I won’t be able to use elm-phoenix-socket package and don’t know if it will catch up by the time I’m confident with using ELM which shouldn’t take much time.
Also as @dsissitka said,

@dsissitka

elm-oracle, which is used for things like completion and type information, isn’t compatible with 0.19

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@AstonJ

Sorry this is slightly off-topic, but what kind of project/s will you be doing with it DG? I’m curious whether liveview might be ‘enough’?

It’s kind of a community social network with a chat system, which is of course possible using LiveView (and I’m a fan of LiveView), but I’m thinking of introducing a game at some point in future, so I want to go JS/ELM way right from the start.

Edit: Also another concern which I have with using LiveView after reading the following comment and re-watching @chrismccord’s talk is, will Phoenix+LiveView stack be as performant as a Phoenix+Js/ELM/Reason/Whatever stack?

@peerreynders

Not all interactions on the page that change the appearance of the page need to involve the server - however I imagine with server-based rendering everything needs to go through the server which is a lot more chatty and more prone to stuttering (the network connection is likely the weakest link) than an application implementing a protocol that prefers much coarser grained data interactions - an approach which I wouldn’t equate with targeting “offline support”.