AstonJ
We’ve put together this wiki for Phoenix LiveView - please feel free to add any info you feel is worth including.
What is Phoenix LiveView?
As described by @darinwilson “Phoenix LiveView allows developers to add dynamic, client-side interactions to web pages, using code that runs in Elixir on the server”. This mean you could kiss goodbye to front end frameworks like React and the JS-hell that so many of us have been finding ourselves in these past few years! As you might imagine, the community is very excited about this!
For a more in-depth explanation, check out Darin’s excellent blog post on the topic.
Official URL: GitHub - phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view: Rich, real-time user experiences with server-rendered HTML · GitHub
Original announcement: Chris McCord’s ElixirConf 2018 Keynote
Threads of interest:
- Discussion thread surrounding Chris McCord’s Keynote
- Phoenix LiveView blog posts
- LiveView has gone… Live!
- LiveView demos, examples, and sample apps thread! - #19
- All threads tagged with Phoenix LiveView
- LiveView demos, examples, and sample apps thread!
Screencasts & Talks:
- Getting Started with Phoenix LiveView
- Coding LiveView talk with Bruce Tate
- Chris McCord ElixirConfEU Keynote: Phoenix LiveView - Interactive, Real TIme Apps - No need to write Javascript
Podcasts of interest:
- https://devchat.tv/elixir-mix/emx-020-phoenix-and-liveview-with-chris-mccord/
- SoundCloud - Hear the world’s sounds
When can you get your hands on it?
Chris has said “soon after Phoenix 1.4 comes out” (and 1.4 is due out soon!). Edit: Now! Here: GitHub - phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view: Rich, real-time user experiences with server-rendered HTML · GitHub
Has there been anything like it previously? Has the idea been tried and tested at all?
We’ve put both of these questions together because the answer is yes and yes! There is a similar library in the Phoenix world called Drab, which has proven to be very popular in the community. LiveView tackles the same sort of problem but from a different angle - so if Drab is anything to go by, LiveView is going to be a huge hit 
There is also another similar library that was announced at ElixirConf 2018, called Texas.
There’s now another new library, called Morphling… and… another called Whistle 
Where can I get more details?
Chris McCord’s keynote is currently the best place to get details, followed by the blog posts on the topic as well as Chris and José’s comments in the numerous threads that have cropped up here on the forum.
Demos
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Chris’s ElixirConf talk
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Tweet from Chris on Nov 5 2018:
https://twitter.com/chris_mccord/status/1059273315666350080?s=20
- Blog post and another demo:
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niccolox
the pragprog phx 1.4 book published date is 10th of November. 8 days
I’d guess its all going to drop together; book, phx 1.4, live view
personally, I’ve been tracking phx head for maybe 6 months, so LiveView is the NEXT BIG THING
kind of revolutionary actually, Websockets is an entirely new paradigm from http
LostKobrakai
Live view is not going to drop in a few days. Chris clearly said in his elixir conf talk, that once the book and phoenix 1.4 is out he can start further research into live view. By now it’s probably just a small prove of concept implementation far from a publishable state.
AstonJ
I think he’s just excited that it means LiveView is what may be coming next… he’s not the only one:
niccolox
oh, I thought LiveView was going to be released at the same time..
yawaramin
If you want to try out a similar concept to LiveView, maybe consider trying out Drab?
AstonJ
I’m not 100% sure now, but I think Chris’s exact words were “soon after Phoenix 1.4 comes out”
niccolox
I only listened to the vid 1 1/2 times, either way, its a big change
I don’t see LiveView in the book at all, except for
so, I figure its not going to be a full release of LiveView, or if it is, its the start of a journey
the http + ws journey has just begun
niccolox
I’ve looked into Drab and Texas and get the idea
more interested in the new standard implementation from the founders
slashdotdash
Chris has tweeted a short LiveView demo:
https://twitter.com/chris_mccord/status/1059273315666350080?s=20
AstonJ
That looks amazing - lightening fast!! Can’t wait to try it