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Oh wow that's brilliant, I hadn't ever considered combining LiveView and Stimulus.js. If you don't mind me asking, what is the benefit over using `phx-hook`? Po

• sph 3y ago
  phx-hook is a nice convenience that works only with Live View. It seems to me a better investment of my time to learn a solution that's just as lightweight, but I can use everywhere (i.e. in other projects, or in static non-Liveview pages)
  • clessg 3y ago
    Makes a lot of sense, thank you! I'm not much into Rails these days, but that's one thing I really appreciate about RoR's "frontend" efforts - their work tends to be quite reusable across ecosystems, e.g. Stimulus, Turbo, and apparently even Hotwire itself [0]. Heck, that even seems to apply to a lot of their non-frontend stuff, such as MRSK [1]. [0] https://www.akshaykhot.com/using-hotwire-without-rails/ https://www.akshaykhot.com/using-hotwire-without-rails/ [1] https://mrsk.dev/ https://mrsk.dev/
    • sph 3y ago
      Yeah RoR with those libraries are also moving towards the "as little JS as possible" approach as well. Client-side logic makes sense in a vacuum, but then your crappy React app is in fact a distributed system, with all the complexity that entails. The radical idea of Liveview and similar efforts is that it's better just to return to basics and keep the logic on the server. It would be lunacy to try and build a distributed system with Javascript, yet that's the direction the SPA world is/was taking us.