In my opinion no one should be a developer without reading at least the Pragmatic Programmer Book 
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tme_317
Yes, in practice everything has been so much faster using LV rather than the SPA I was writing at the time… it was a major reason Chris wrote LV in the first place as he talks about in the excellent video at ElixirConf 2018 when he introduced it to the world!
I remember the same week I watched his conference speech I dealt with a very simple requirement to break full_name into first_name and last_name fields… and I realized how many times in my app first_name or firstName was defined from the DB/migration, schema, context, absinthe schema and mutation, apollo, react component tree, tests, etc… so much of it was plumbing data from the backend to the frontend. By keeping the data/schemas/validation logic all server-side it is MUCH faster for me to deal with changes like this without having to touch a dozen files.
This video from the Rails ecosystem also resounded with me… especially when Sam says “Guess what? You’re not Google. You’re not Facebook”. As a solo we don’t have massive teams of specialists… frontend, backend, db, devops, etc. LiveView is such a major win for us optimizing speed to market and lessening complexity!
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crispinb
Nice. I will dive into LiveView once I’ve got through the Phoenix basics. The Phoenix/LiveView combo played a big role in motivating me to start exploring Elixir last week. The language itself strikes me as easy to learn - it’s surprisingly small and a few hours reading and playing has been enough to make it feel like a comfortable fit. I am fairly familiar with functional programming, which helps I think. The whole OTP thing is another matter of course.
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