Phoenix LiveView: How would you build forum (Discourse-like) in it?

[AndyL]

Dave Thomas has been talking about component-oriented development and Elixir.

Should we adopt Dave's way of building applications as a series of components? (Dave's talk has now been added!)

Another point that Dave drives home in his course is that applications really are components, and you should treat them as such. Not as “full fledged applications”. We’ve been doing that umbrella-style before, but umbrellas are confusing and I always felt that even mix phx.new --no-ecto --no-html --no-brunch api generated a ton of fluff. In the same vein that files/modules are free and you can use them to separate api/otp glue/implementation, applications are free and you can - and I think shoul…

Would this be a good fit for LiveView?