pillaiindu

pillaiindu

Is Optimistic UI now possible with Phoenix LiveView?

A post from Dev Talk directed me to this todo demo at SvelteKit. I was surprised how slow the response of creating and deleting a todo was, considering the performance of Svelte. Then I opened the network tab and I realized it was sending requests to the server on my slow connection.

I realized it needed Optimistic UI updates / Latency compensation to be instant. Then I remebered that I had asked about the possibility of Optimistic UI in LiveView in Feb 2019.



I asked that question when LiveView was new. Now LiveView has matured and there are a couple of books on LiveView (one from Pragmatic Bookshelf and another one from Groxio), and a detailed video course from Pragmatic Studio.
What is the scenario now? Can LiveView make Optimistic UI updates, or we still need to use GraphQL, Apollo, etc to have Optimistic UI updates?

@chrismccord


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kelvinst

kelvinst

Plus the fact that it requires you to implement a lot of duplicated logic on server and client. With LiveView you can be productive because you are not reimplementing a lot of stuff over and over. With SPAs you implement a lot of validations on the server for data consistency reasons and you implement the same validations on the client to be able to actually be optimistic without giving the user a lot of false positives.

BartOtten

BartOtten

You should be able to use phx-disable-with for optimistic UI on the client. However, that seems to be only applicable to the element you are interacting with. Maybe it’s a start though…Can’t check it myself as I am on mobile.

al2o3cr

al2o3cr

IMO LiveView makes a totally different set of tradeoffs to run most/all of the logic on the server-side: GraphQL + Apollo is designed to run much of that logic on the client side.

Translating to physical objects, this question is like asking “can Airplane now dive to the bottom of the ocean, or do we still need to use Oxygen Tanks and Submarines?” Both things are designed for their particular use-case, and while similar they aren’t interchangeable.

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