Unable to trigger effects on application start

[asvanberg]

Before #93 it was possible to supply a list of effects to run at initialization. Is it possible to restore this functionality? Now it is no longer possible to fetch a list of things on page load to display for example and you must instead trigger a message to the update function that can run the effect.

The rationale seems to be to make Flame more like the Elm architecture but even Elm allows effects to be ran at initialization.

[easafe]

Hi @asvanberg , is it possible to accomplish what you need by raising a message? With https://github.com/easafe/purescript-flame/blob/master/src/Flame/Subscription.purs#L20. The older init type was just a shorthand for that

[asvanberg]

Yeah it seems to work using the following snippet. Is it the correct way?

main :: Effect Unit
main = do
  let appId = AppId "myApp"
  F.mount (QuerySelector "body") appId
    { model: init
    , update
    , view
    , subscribe: []
    }
  send appId Initialize

[easafe]

Yes, and mount also returns the initial state

[asvanberg]

Yes, and mount also returns the initial state

Not sure what you mean by this? mount returns Effect Unit.

[easafe]

Sorry, I meant to type resumeMount