Rather than track HTTP requests’ statuses with something like an isLoading: Bool property, use the RemoteData type and pattern. This provides a succinct way to represent the different states a request can be in, without muddying up your model.
Examples
Main.elm
type RemoteData e a
= NotAsked
| Loading
| Failure e
| Success a
type alias Model =
{ wins : RemoteData Http.Error Int
, games : RemoteData Http.Error Int
}
View.elm
case model.wins of
NotAsked ->
text ""
Loading ->
div [ class "throbber" ] []
Failure e ->
div [ class "error" ] [ text "error" ]
Success wins ->
h4 [] [ text <| toString wins ]
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