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Looks interesting but I am not interested in making timelines .. is this Phoenix framework general enough to make arbitrary real time web apps?

rglover 7y ago
Yes, think of it like Rails for the Elixir language. Phoenix -> Elixir Rails -> Ruby
- bostonvaulter2 7y ago
  But without requiring all of the ActiveSupport patches to the base language!
chrismccord 7y ago
Absolutely. We have extremely varied usage in the wild. From sports/content websites with tens of millions of users (bleacher report, cars.com), to folks running social/chat services with millions of persistent connections, to folks running Phoenix on embedded systems. And as you would expect, there's a ton of "boring business app / JSON API" usage in there as well, so we have a good story about generalized use. The goal of the screencast, as I outlay in the beginning is to show how easy LiveView makes it to build interactive and real-time applications, and a social timeline was a decent way to do that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
rupurt 7y ago
Happy LiveView user here :) Can confirm it can be used in many scenarios. One of my favorites is streaming realtime data to a chart. I serialize my data as JSON in the LiveView template and read it back in from a Hook. Saves me time by not having to create a separate API endpoint. e.g. <div phx-hook="MyChart" data-days="<%= Jason.encode!(days(@balances)) %>" data-amounts="<%= Jason.encode!(amounts(@balances)) %>" > <div phx-update="ignore"> </div> </div>
cultofmetatron 7y ago
I'm currently using it to make a restaurant POS. It's very flexible. Everything composes like lego pieces in a very clean and straightforward way with surprisingly little magic.
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nathan_long 7y ago
You can see some other examples of LiveView apps at https://phoenixphrenzy.com/results https://phoenixphrenzy.com/results
zem 7y ago
i'm currently using it to make a board game where updates are pushed live to everyone. it's the most pleasant experience i've ever had writing a webapp.

rglover 7y ago

Yes, think of it like Rails for the Elixir language. Phoenix -> Elixir Rails -> Ruby

bostonvaulter2 7y ago
But without requiring all of the ActiveSupport patches to the base language!

chrismccord 7y ago

Absolutely. We have extremely varied usage in the wild. From sports/content websites with tens of millions of users (bleacher report, cars.com), to folks running social/chat services with millions of persistent connections, to folks running Phoenix on embedded systems. And as you would expect, there's a ton of "boring business app / JSON API" usage in there as well, so we have a good story about generalized use. The goal of the screencast, as I outlay in the beginning is to show how easy LiveView makes it to build interactive and real-time applications, and a social timeline was a decent way to do that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

rupurt 7y ago

Happy LiveView user here :) Can confirm it can be used in many scenarios. One of my favorites is streaming realtime data to a chart. I serialize my data as JSON in the LiveView template and read it back in from a Hook. Saves me time by not having to create a separate API endpoint. e.g. <div phx-hook="MyChart" data-days="<%= Jason.encode!(days(@balances)) %>" data-amounts="<%= Jason.encode!(amounts(@balances)) %>" > <div phx-update="ignore"> </div> </div>

cultofmetatron 7y ago

I'm currently using it to make a restaurant POS. It's very flexible. Everything composes like lego pieces in a very clean and straightforward way with surprisingly little magic.

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nathan_long 7y ago

You can see some other examples of LiveView apps at https://phoenixphrenzy.com/results https://phoenixphrenzy.com/results

zem 7y ago

i'm currently using it to make a board game where updates are pushed live to everyone. it's the most pleasant experience i've ever had writing a webapp.