Phoenix: LiveView

I think there are a large number of use cases for which this completely obviates the need to build a SPA. That's a huge time savings, and also makes for a faster cycle time as an app gets iterated upon/redesigned. The cost implications are massive.

In many circumstances I think it will also be a better user experience than a SPA -- e.g. this avoids "cold start" performance issues for a user's first page.

Thanks for the hard work Chris, José & team. Elixir & Phoenix are a joy to use while also being incredibly powerful/productive.

The apps I know were:

1. Freezes and needing a refresh/logout after the server-side "actor" or connection fails.

2. Refresh won't actually work, you need to login again.

3. Neither does back/forward, hence the big warnings not to hit back button, for example in a paginated list. Hitting back makes it freeze.

4. Extreme latency.

5. No shareable urls or hyperlinks possible, two tabs in same browser will sync with each other.