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LiveView vs. Astro 3.0
Astro 3.0 dropped a few days ago and there seems to be a decent amount of hype in the broader webdev community around many of its new features.
This video provides a pretty extensive breakdown (and a lot of said hype).
Looking through the release, there seems to be some genuinely awesome stuff – support for the new View Transitions API and their story for Image Optimization via easy CDN integration seem particularly compelling.
As someone who loves Elixir/LiveView, but hasn’t had the chance to work extensively with either in a professional environment (yet), I’m curious to hear some thoughts from the more experienced members of the community…
How does LiveView today compare with Astro 3.0 (and perhaps the server-side JS world more broadly) in your eyes? Are there any features Astro now offers that you wish could be added to LiveView, or even features compelling enough to get you to switch? Is there any reason LiveView couldn’t (or shouldn’t) do everything Astro now does?
Personally, I’d almost certainly choose LiveView when I have complex needs on the back-end and want tight integration with the BEAM, but then (reluctantly) reach for something like Astro when I have a simpler back-end and care more about building a flashy front-end for my content.
Curious how y’all feel!
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chrismccord
I’ve been tracking the view transition API, but it’s chrome-only so not really something we’re targeting until it gets broader adoption. In general I’m open to adding evergreen features that aren’t supported everywhere, but they have to at least be standardized. Last I checked view transitions were still in the experimental stage. Very slick transitions tho. If someone has the time, we could explore what kind of interfaces LiveView would need to open up to allow a third-party lib/user-land to provide view transitions for live navigation until things become standard.
kwando
Biggest drawback is that I would have to use JS/TS and all the other “fun” stuff that comes with that
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