LiveView Handles the Hard Parts: How LiveView Optimizes Real-Time Web Apps with Streams
LiveView is a declarative framework for real-time web development. In this talk, you’ll learn how the LiveView streams API makes for highly optimized client-server communication and develop an appreciation for LiveView’s approach to handling the tedious and difficult details of the real-time web, freeing you up to focus on the fun stuff. You’ll get a taste for LiveView programming that will leave you ready to dive deeper on your own.
LiveView is the web development framework of choice for BEAM users because it leverages the power of The BEAM to allow developers to build lightning fast, real-time web apps quickly and with ease. This is because LiveView handles the difficult and tedious details of WebSocket-based client/server communication, of OTP process management, and even of JavaScript integration and execution, leaving you to focus on building the unique logic and functionality of your web page. Like any true declarative framework, you never have to tell LiveView how to do something. You only need to tell it what to do. One of the best examples of this approach is LiveView’s stream functionality, which allows you to manage large datasets on the client-side–without writing any client-side code yourself.
In this talk, I’ll show you how to use the LiveView streams API, a server-side API, to build highly efficient single-page web apps. We’ll take a look under the hood to understand how LiveView handles the “hard parts” of this kind of optimization. When we’re done, you’ll have an appreciation for the LiveView framework’s declarative approach to web development, and you’ll be prepared to continue to get your hands dirty with LiveView web development.
