I've dabbled with Phoenix 1.6-dev (after seeing it in action and being mindblown in the livebook code), and think the new HEEX components are great. Building a

I've dabbled with Phoenix 1.6-dev (after seeing it in action and being mindblown in the livebook code), and think the new HEEX components are great. Building a LiveView app out of components, and sending messages back to the server and re-rendering, feels a lot like building a react app! This is a real intuitive and easy to use flow. (I remember when react came on the scene and its "one way dataflow" was so groundbreaking to me.) That said, a react app where every state update is a round-trip to the server is probably not ideal. I know that there's the PETAL stack for this sort of thing. I guess my question is: with so much functionality available in pure Elixir/LiveView, what's your decision process when embarking on a new app about when to try to get by with just that, vs bringing in react or a full SPA frontend and simple API backend? Separate question: what's the best dev environment and tooling for Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView these days? My VSCode setup is pretty great for React, particularly with format-on-save nesting and indenting my JSX properly. I miss that when working in (h)eex templates.