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Been waiting for this release to start playing with Phoenix.

I'm super interested to see how liveview turns out. Can it be a game changer and free us from JS framework morass? Anyone know if there's a public liveview repo/work to look at somewhere?

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There's no public repo yet, but I'd like to open it up soon. I've been ironing out the details of the programming model before opening it up – namely nested live views and how the remote client spawns and reconnects to the server processes. I made solid progress last week, and posted a sneak peak of the nested views and error recovery: https://twitter.com/chris_mccord/status/1059273315666350080

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This is terrific work!!!

I still usually use react or similar with Phoenix, but it’s pretty easy to sprinkle things like that across SSR pages. It’s a really great tool overall and I find that one I’m in a good groove I get a ton done in Elixir. The tooling is amazing as well. My team runs credo and dialyzer alongside tests in ci, and the whole thing finishes in 2 minutes, it’s really a pleasure to work with.

Make sure you're using RC of Dialyxir with the new pretty printed error messaging!

Oh, I totally forgot about upgrading that! Thanks.

LiveView is easily the coolest thing I've seen in web for a LONG time.

I'm also looking at drab, which does a similar thing for Phoenix. Sadly I'm going to have to implement too soon to wait for LiveView.

There's also Texas[1], which was presented on the same conference as LiveView.

[1] https://gitlab.com/dgmcguire/texas

I hadn't found Texas, thanks.

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