132: Embed Friendly Alternative to LiveView?

LiveView isn't always the right answer. Chris Nelson created LiveState to enable embedding custom HTML components in other websites and connect over Phoenix channels to keep UI state on the server! LiveState takes an interesting approach that tries to keep many of the benefits of LiveView but apply it to situations like custom components in static sites hosted by other people. Chris explains how it works and what problems it solves. Check it out! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/132 Elixir Community News Happy New Year! Welcome to 2023! https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2022/12/22/cheatsheets-and-8-other-features-in-exdoc-that-improve-the-developer-experience/ – ElixirLang blog post highlighting some ExDoc features https://twitter.com/hugobarauna/status/1605283803668221952 – Hugo Baraúna used the new ExDoc Cheatsheet feature to add a couple Cheatsheets for Ecto. https://hexdocs.pm/ecto/crud.html https://hexdocs.pm/ecto/associations.html https://github.com/lukegalea/LiveBook_GoogleColab/blob/main/Google_Colab_hosted_Elixir_LiveBook_%2B_BumbleeBee_on_GPU_(Stable_Diffusion_%2B_GPT_2)_v1_0.ipynb – Luke Galea created a Livebook online with an “Open in Colab” link at the top that goes through Jupyter notebooks to run Livebook on Google Colab's free tier. https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/zq5d2z/run_elixir_livebook_w_bumbleebee_on_gpu_for_free/ https://github.com/am-kantox/finitomata – Aleksei Matiushkin released a library called Finitomata that reads your PlantUML or Mermaid chart and create a state machine from it https://twitter.com/elixirmembrane/status/1605519154689310721 – The membrane library “membrane_rtc_engine” announced v0.8. https://github.com/membraneframework/membrane_rtc_engine https://elixirforum.com/t/webauthnlivecomponent-passwordless-auth-for-liveview-apps/49941/12 – Owen Bickford has released some early support for passkeys in browsers and mobile devices https://blog.chromium.org/2022/12/introducing-passkeys-in-chrome.html https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/sign-in-with-passkeys-iphf538ea8d0/16.0/ios/16.0 https://hex.pm/packages/webauthn_live_component – Owen's library on Hex Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected] Discussion Resources https://launchscout.com/ https://launchscout.com/blog/embedded-web-apps-with-livestate – Blog post talking about LiveState https://github.com/launchscout/live_state – server-side of LiveState https://github.com/launchscout/live-state – npm package for client-side of LiveState https://github.com/launchscout/livestate-comments – demo showing how LiveState works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLamITBMoVI – ElixirConf 2022 video https://www.w3.org/TR/css-shadow-parts-1/ https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/channels.html https://disqus.com/ https://www.w3.org/TR/css3-cascade/#inherit-initial https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components/Using_custom_elements Guest Information https://twitter.com/superchris – on Twitter https://github.com/superchris/ – on Github https://launchscout.com/blog/ – Blog [email protected] Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Message the show on Mastadon - @[email protected] Email the show - [email protected] Mark Ericksen - @brainlid Mark Ericksen on Mastadon - @[email protected] David Bernheisel - @bernheisel David Bernheisel on Mastadon - @[email protected] Cade Ward - @cadebward Cade Ward on Mastadon - @[email protected] Sponsored By:Fly.io: Fly.io is a great place to deploy your next Phoenix application! Check them out!