Real-Time Apps with LiveView
Elixir has a solid foundation in real-time application development. It started with Phoenix Channels, which I wrote all about in Real-Time Phoenix [Bus20]. But there’s been an awesome library that has completely dominated real-time application development in Elixir—LiveView. (It’s so popular that it’s often the first thing people hear about Elixir.)
LiveView[114] is a library that enables a new breed of real-time applications. It is servercentric, which means that all of the page HTML is processed on the server and efficiently sent to clients on update. So, if a change happens on the server, connected clients are instantly and automatically updated.
The magic of LiveView is that it enables you to create powerful ...
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