{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elm-lang/elm-lang.org/issues/327","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elm-lang/elm-lang.org/issues/327/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elm-lang/elm-lang.org/issues/327/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elm-lang/elm-lang.org/issues/327/events","html_url":"https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-lang.org/issues/327","id":93030715,"number":327,"title":"Add proper get-started-page (again?)","user":{"login":"jvoigtlaender","id":5853832,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5853832?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jvoigtlaender","html_url":"https://github.com/jvoigtlaender","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jvoigtlaender/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jvoigtlaender/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jvoigtlaender/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jvoigtlaender/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jvoigtlaender/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jvoigtlaender/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jvoigtlaender/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jvoigtlaender/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jvoigtlaender/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":8,"created_at":"2015-07-04T17:05:07Z","updated_at":"2015-08-18T09:35:01Z","closed_at":null,"body":"The installers provide the link http://elm-lang.org/Get-Started.elm. Currently it redirects to http://elm-lang.org/docs, but that page does not really tell the user how to get started with Elm in terms of how to build/run a program. \r\n\r\nHow do I compile a program? What is elm-reactor, what are the roles of the other executables installed, etc.? These questions are not answered there, and as [evidenced in this thread](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/elm-discuss/-JqrhSDZyn4/fTge-omsOtUJ), this can be an impediment for people starting out.\r\n\r\nI vaguely remember that there previously was a get-started-page that provided such info. Or maybe that was instead some README of one of the various repos? In any case, it seems worthwhile to have http://elm-lang.org/Get-Started.elm not be a redirect to http://elm-lang.org/docs, but instead a page with info about what got just installed (and then possibly a link from that page to http://elm-lang.org/docs). Incidentally, Gil Mizrahi's [blog post](http://www.gilmi.xyz/post/2015/07/04/starting-elm) pointed to in [this thread](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/elm-discuss/GgUFRRfAbgU/W0U_1QBO3xcJ) fits the bill quite well. Maybe it's even possible to turn that post into something for http://elm-lang.org/Get-Started.elm?\r\n "},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elm-lang/elm-lang.org/issues/comments/132143077","html_url":"https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-lang.org/issues/327#issuecomment-132143077","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elm-lang/elm-lang.org/issues/327","id":132143077,"user":{"login":"jvoigtlaender","id":5853832,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5853832?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jvoigtlaender","html_url":"https://github.com/jvoigtlaender","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jvoigtlaender/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jvoigtlaender/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jvoigtlaender/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jvoigtlaender/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jvoigtlaender/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jvoigtlaender/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jvoigtlaender/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jvoigtlaender/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jvoigtlaender/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-08-18T09:35:01Z","updated_at":"2015-08-18T09:35:01Z","body":"For the record: I don't know exactly what was on the original Get-Started page, and couldn't immediately locate it in the repo. But from the mailing list threads above it seems clear to me that something that should be on that page (and isn't currently in the `starter.md` linked above or on the elm-architecture-tutorial pages) is a description of what binaries are installed by the installers and what their roles are for Elm development. Let's wait for a pull request by Gil, then work from there."}}