Your thoughts on LiveData by Hans Elias Josephsen

[coen.bakker]

I just watched the Talk by Hans Elias Josephsen about “LiveData”, that was posted some hours ago on the YouTube channel of Code Sync.

Introducing LiveData: LiveView for JSON endpoints | Hans Elias Josephsen | ElixirConf EU 2022

Worth a watch, if you haven’t already. But if you have: any thoughts on this project? Maybe ways you might want to implement it?

I thought it was a great little talk. He mentions possible use cases for SPAs and native apps, but also went into a bit of detail about how LiveData works under the hood.

I’m aware that I haven’t given any info about what LiveData actually does, but maybe I was able to make you curious enough to check out the video .

[AstonJ]

You might be interested in this thread Coen:

Client-side rendering, server-side state (StateChannel)

I have been thinking a lot about what are the pain points in web development, and what the remedy can be. First off, I’ve been programming web applications since about Rails 1.2, when the REST concept was introduced and was considered revolutionary, and I went through different stacks, that were both server-side, and client-side rendered: Dojo, Ember.js, React, Stimulus, LiveView, and many others… Recently I was taking part in several projects using LiveView and one using Surface UI. I have got…

I haven’t had a chance to read it myself but did notice the author of LiveData, LiveState and StateChannel all taking part

[coen.bakker]

Ty for pointing this out. I just read the thread and can’t emphasize enough how great it is to be able to read along with discussions like this about Elixir and Phoenix, but also web dev in general, by programmers more experienced than myself.

[hansihe]

That is actually a different LiveData than the one I am working on, which is quite confusing

[AstonJ]

Ah sorry Hans, I saw LiveData in the title and assumed they were both the same

[hansihe]

Also worth a mention, this is all open source at GitHub - hansihe/live_data.

I just started at Fresha, and they have expressed interest in sponsoring development time on the project, so hopefully new things will be happening in the project very soon

[Piye]

Can you use it with a Flutter app?

[hansihe]

Yep, it is. There is a dart client in the repo which you can use in your flutter app.

[Elixir_begginer]

Hello, your project looks like exactly what i was looking for. I just wanted to ask, can you provide some i sight of how much this concept is a burdein on the server memory? I’m guessing the state would hold all the db queries data the fronted is using, which looks like with more users it could quickly use up the memory. For example liveview solved this with streams. Thank you for your work!