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I'm by no means an expert in Elm, so it's difficult for me to say for certain (although I'm currently working on a larger Elm application and I'm sure I'll come out of that with more thoughts!), but my current thought on this is that yes, I do prefer the idea of the Model being a Custom Type as opposed to a record. The main thing I kept coming up against when having the model be a record was that it seemed like every separate view ended up having information (or at least theoretical access to information) that it just didn't need - it could very well be that I wasn't organising my models very well, but since making this change in my own code things have felt easier to deal with and reason about.
Again, my thoughts on this in future might change, but as of right now (which is after all when you're asking :D ) I think that this approach is helpful for reasoning about the application itself - if your Model is always describing the state of your application, then it feels likely that this will make life easier for anyone maintaining your application in the future - something I think we should all be careful to consider.
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I'm by no means an expert in Elm, so it's difficult for me to say for certain (although I'm currently working on a larger Elm application and I'm sure I'll come out of that with more thoughts!), but my current thought on this is that yes, I do prefer the idea of the
Modelbeing a Custom Type as opposed to a record. The main thing I kept coming up against when having the model be a record was that it seemed like every separate view ended up having information (or at least theoretical access to information) that it just didn't need - it could very well be that I wasn't organising my models very well, but since making this change in my own code things have felt easier to deal with and reason about.Again, my thoughts on this in future might change, but as of right now (which is after all when you're asking :D ) I think that this approach is helpful for reasoning about the application itself - if your Model is always describing the state of your application, then it feels likely that this will make life easier for anyone maintaining your application in the future - something I think we should all be careful to consider.