Building Table Views with Phoenix LiveView

Chapter 1Building a Simple Table UI

In the upcoming chapters, we’ll solve a common problem when displaying data in a web application: our dataset is too large to show it all at once. Showing everything at once would cause significant performance issues both during the transport and the presentation of the data. Our user would have to wait forever until they see the data. It also prevents our user from narrowing down the dataset to the subsets they are most interested in.

We’ll explore how to paginate, sort, and filter the dataset to break it into smaller, more digestible chunks. Our goal is to give the user full power over this functionality so that they can explore our dataset all on their own. Eventually, we want our user to be able to ...