Live Components suddenly not compiling, app crashing with UndefinedFunctionError

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#1

I’ve been re-arranging my code to break a larger LiveView app into smaller Live Components based on separation of concerns. In the main app I alias the component module name (BoardComponent), then render:

<%= live_component @socket, BoardComponent,
      active_user: @active_user,
      user_cache: @user_cache,
      active_board: @active_board %>

I’ve done this with several different components so far, with no problems. But after doing a little work today, I’m suddenly getting hit with

** (UndefinedFunctionError) function MyAppWeb.BoardComponent.__live__/0 is undefined (module MyAppWeb.BoardComponent is not available)

But not just for the BoardComponent… when I try to access a different one - same exact error:

** (UndefinedFunctionError) function MyAppWeb.PostComponent.__live__/0 is undefined (module MyAppWeb.PostComponent is not available)

Even components that were not even touched by today’s work, for some reason are “not available”. And it’s really strange… After reloading and recompiling a few times, I can get some modules to work but not others… and I’m not changing the code AT ALL - just killing and restarting mix phx.server gives different results each time.

Any ideas what could be going on? I didn’t really make any major changes today.

#2

Are you perhaps still using use Phoenix.LiveView when you should now be using use Phoenix.LiveComponent?

#3

I’m using

use MyAppWeb, :live_component
#4

I fixed my own issue by making non-changes
e.g. {:ok, socket} to:

{:ok,
  socket
}

doing that one-by-one for all my components, and Elixir then recompiled the files and now there are no errors. Even if I revert the changes back to {:ok, socket} it still works. Very strange…

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#5

@APB9785 sounds like something in your _build directory got weird. While I generally find that compiler issues with Elixir are rare, when they do happen, they are generally fixed for me by doing rm -rf _build

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#6

Did you by any chance compiled the code or ran the app with different versions of Elixir:

  • like be trying out the app inside a docker container with the entire project mapped as a volume?
  • or by using your software version manager tool, like asdf to run the app with different Elixir version?

If you have done this then the _build folder get’s itself in a weird state. Also when trying out new versions of Elixir you may end-up with incompatible versions in your mix.lock and deps folder.

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#7

Thanks for the info! But in this case, I didn’t do anything with docker or asdf. I was just moving around some handle_event/3 clauses after separating a settings menu into its own LC.

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#8

So it seems that your solution is to do what is suggested here :slight_smile:

If you could replicate the issue in a sample Phoenix repo then you could open a bug report for the Elixir compiler.

#9

I just came across this same error message and I don’t think I touched the code between working and not-working states. Walked away from the computer with no compile errors, came back and refreshed a webpage on localhost and it gave the same error as OP. I commented out a couple uncommitted changes (a route and the live_view file for that route) to remove all unstaged edits to get back to the commit that I’m sure was working, and the error persisted.

** (exit) an exception was raised:
    ** (UndefinedFunctionError) function MyAppWeb.CheckoutLive.Show.__live__/0 is undefined (module MyAppWeb.CheckoutLive.Show is not available)
        MyAppWeb.CheckoutLive.Show.__live__()
        (phoenix_live_view 0.17.5) lib/phoenix_live_view/static.ex:239: Phoenix.LiveView.Static.load_live!/2
        (phoenix_live_view 0.17.5) lib/phoenix_live_view/static.ex:83: Phoenix.LiveView.Static.render/3
        (phoenix_live_view 0.17.5) lib/phoenix_live_view/controller.ex:38: Phoenix.LiveView.Controller.live_render/3
        (phoenix 1.6.5) lib/phoenix/router.ex:355: Phoenix.Router.__call__/2
        (my_app_web 0.1.0) lib/my_app_web/endpoint.ex:1: MyAppWeb.Endpoint.plug_builder_call/2
        (my_app_web 0.1.0) lib/plug/debugger.ex:136: MyAppWeb.Endpoint."call (overridable 3)"/2
        (my_app_web 0.1.0) lib/my_app_web/endpoint.ex:1: MyAppWeb.Endpoint.call/2

Nuked the _build to get back to working before wondering if this was an error with a resolution. Are there useful commands/spelunking to do when a _build folder gets into a confused state?