Experience re-writing Angular/Elixir web app using Phoenix LiveView

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Before LiveView existed, I wrote an SPA with Angular on the front end and Phoenix/Elixir on the backend. For the past month I’ve been re-writing my web app using Phoenix/LiveView. I’ve written other SPAs as well, using React/Java.

I just wanted to say how incredibly happy I am to be developing using Phoenix/LiveView. I would say may productivity is 10x compared to the old way. Plus, it is just a joy to program in this environment.

So, thanks!

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could you please share type of app and complexity of interface ? I am planning to migrate one of frontend heavy app with lot of complex forms and afraid live view may not be a good fit for migration

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My app is used to author and deliver online education material. It uses the structure of the concepts represented to sequence topics to end users (students) in an optimal manner. I would say it is of medium to high complexity at the moment. There are a small number of forms thus far, but having a large number of them shouldn’t be a problem. I use components from the free version of Flowbite. Hope that’s at least slightly useful.