This is all well and good but Elixir with Phoenix and Liveview is super bloated and you have to have a real reason to buy into such a monster that you couldn't do with a simpler stack.

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monooso 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm not sure I agree with the "bloated" description, but I will say that I really like Elixir, and really dislike LiveView. Which is a shame, because the latter is pretty inescapable in Elixir world these days.

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ipnon 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Interesting take. I’m an Elixir fanboy because I find LiveView to be very slim. You’re just sending state diffs over WebSocket and updating the DOM with MorphDOM. The simplicity is incomparable to state of the art with JavaScript frameworks in my humble opinion.

	▲	btreecat 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That seems more complicated than jQuery
	▲	fud101 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I'd use something like a lightweight python framework (take your pick) and pair it with htmx. You can run that on low powered hardware or a cheap VPS. I can't even dev elixir on my N100 minipc, it's too demanding. Otherwise Python and SolidJS or Preact will work perfectly for a SPA.