elm-static-html

Turn an Elm app into a static HTML site.

Your modules must look like this:

module Main exposing (..)
 
import Html
import Html.Attributes exposing (class, href)
 
view : Html.Html msg
view =
    Html.div []
        [ Html.h1 [ class "hello" ] [ Html.text "new!" ]
        , Html.a [ href "/login" ] [ Html.text "Login" ]
        , Html.text "hello"
        ]
 

then you can use

 
elm-static-html --filename Main.elm --output index.html
 

which will produce

<div><h1 class="hello">new!</h1><a href="/login">Login</a>hello</div>

Flags

elm-static-html -f Main.elm will print the output to stdout by default You can create an initial config file through elm-static-html --init-config, though it's not needed to work.

You can use the config file to generate multiple files through elm-static-html -c elm-static-html.json. The config file looks like this:

{
    "files": {
        "<ElmFile.elm>": {
            "output": "<OutputFile.html>",
            "viewFunction": "view"
        },
        "<AnotherElmFile.elm": {
            "output": "<AnotherOutputFile.html>",
            "viewFunction": "someViewFunc"
        }
        /* ... */
    }
}

Notes

An .elm-static-html folder is created in order to generate the correct HTML and JS needed. You can delete it if you want, but it'll make builds a little slower.