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Don't even need Ajax anymore. You can render on the fly, and deliver new HTML over websockets. The gap between SPA and classic server-side rendering is getting smaller fast.

https://youtu.be/Z2DU0qLfPIY?t=14m58s

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I watched 3:15 of that and he was still just getting started. Do you think you could provide a link to the good part?

I can recommend watching the whole thing, but I thought this bit was a pretty cool demo: https://youtu.be/Z2DU0qLfPIY?t=41m20s

Thank you!

JS is still required. Sending plain HTML is not the best path forward.

The idea in this case is that you'd have a bit of JS that would take care of updating the DOM, binding event handlers (which is specified and taken care of server-side), and so on.

How Phoenix.LiveView would do this exactly is still being worked on, but [Drab](https://github.com/grych/drab) will probably offer some inspiration.

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