One concern that comes up a lot is how LiveView stores and runs a lot of data server-side.

I’ve always seen this a good thing.

First off, I really appreciate sites/apps that are nice to my phone’s battery as well as my laptop’s memory. Even users who don’t actively care about this passively care without realizing it. Next, if you have intellectual property to protect then it’s obviously better to have as much of it server-side as possible. I once saw some Hack News folk carrying on about how they hate people who reverse engineer obfuscated JS. “Well stop putting sensitive stuff in client-side JS, you ding dongs” was my thought, but I digress*

As far as costs go, If I’m running a dedicated server anyway then I’ve already paid for my memory so go ahead and max it out. If I need to scale up or out, then I have more users who are theoretically offsetting the extra costs exponentially.

Of course, I don’t have actual experience with this. I did briefly work for a company that ran a LiveView widget in production, but I never dug into the financials with them (our servers seemed fine, though!)

So my very open-ended question to small-to-medium business folk running LiveView: what’s your experience been like with this?

Thanks to any willing to share!

(*) I do realize that there are certain classes of web applications that must be heavily client-side. I’m just being cheeky, ok?