Elm CodeGen

Elm CodeGen is an Elm package and CLI tool for generating Elm code.

- Here we are on NPM
- And the code docs on the Elm package website

The goal is to be easier to write and more maintainable than that string template you have lying around. 😏

Here's what this tool does for you in order to make generating code simpler.

1. Automatic imports — Import declarations are calculated.
2. Built in type inference — The types for your generated code are inferred, which means generated things can figure out their own type signatures.
3. Use existing packages easily — For generating code that uses a specific _library_ such as elm-ui, the elm-codegen CLI can create some Elm code to help you out.
Check out the Using packages guide to get a better idea of what this looks like!

To get started, here's a small example to give you an idea of what the code looks like!

``elm
Elm.declaration "anExample"
(Elm.record
[ ("name", Elm.string "a fancy string!")
, ("fancy", Elm.bool True)
]
)
|> Elm.ToString.declaration
`

The above will generate the following string:

`elm
anExample : { name : String, fancy : Bool }
anExample =
{ name = "a fancy string!"
, fancy = True
}
`

Check out the guide!

- Getting started
- Writing a generator
- Using packages/helpers
- Running via TypeScript

And finally, the elm-codegen package documentation.

Using the CLI

`
npm install -g elm-codegen
`

Then you can start a codegen project using:

`
elm-codegen init
``