laiboonh
Hi all,
I am trying to convince my team to use liveview over the current react. What are some of the points where one should consider using liveview instead of react?
To start off:
- Using one language to code frontend and back saves us from context switching
- Arguably easier to do as there will no need for data serialising and de-seriialising or REST
- …
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egze
What’s in it for you? Why are you trying to convince them?
Curious to hear more of your own arguments. (Not saying it’s a bad initiative, but trying to make you express your own reasons, and not the forums)
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laiboonh
Mainly because i am allergic to javascript.
mindok
Have you read the history lesson on why liveview came to be? You may get some answers there.
tfwright
For me the biggest advantage is keeping all data management in one place. With a react front end, you basically have 2 applications, and each requires its own set of patterns, tests, etc to deal with state. In comparison with just react (it is of course possible, arguably necessary, to leverage other libs to help) live view is a lot more equipped to do this in a robust, reliable way.
In my experience, unless you have absolute top of the line expert react devs, you are looking at 3 or 4 or even more times as much dev time.
I guess this falls under “no need for API” but i feel that formulation drastically undersells the advantage.
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innocentoldguy
In my experience, LiveView is faster than React (resulting in a better user experience), is truly multi-threaded rather than using an event loop, is easier to debug, requires a lot less code, and is easier to manage state. The fact that it isn’t JavaScript is also a big win, in my opinion.