Phoenix core team members Chris McCord and Jason Stiebs join Elixir Wizards Sundi Myint and Owen Bickford the growth of Phoenix and LiveView, the latest updates, and what they're excited to see in the future. They express excitement for the possibilities of machine learning, AI, and distributed systems and how these emerging technologies will enhance the user experience of Elixir and LiveView applications in the next decade.
Key Topics Discussed in this Episode:
How community contributions and feedback help improve Phoenix LiveView
The addition of function components, declarative assigns, HEEx, and streams
Why Ecto changesets should be used as "fire and forget" data structures
Excitement about machine learning and AI with libraries like NX
The possibility of distributed systems and actors in the future
Verifying and solving issues in the Phoenix and LiveView issue trackers
Why marketing plays a part in the adoption and mindshare of Phoenix
How streams provide a primitive for arbitrarily large dynamic lists
Elixir VM's ability to scale to millions of connections
A creative use of form inputs for associations with dynamic children
Links Mentioned in this Episode:
Fly Site https://fly.io/
Keynote: The Road To LiveView 1.0 by Chris McCord | ElixirConf EU 2023 (https://youtu.be/FADQAnq0RpA)
Keynote: I Was Wrong About LiveView by Jason Stiebs | ElixirConf 2022 (https://youtu.be/INgpJ3eIKZY)
Phoenix Site https://www.phoenixframework.org/
Phoenix Github https://github.com/phoenixframework
Two-Story, 10-Room Purple Martin House (https://suncatcherstudio.com/uploads/birds/birdhouses/purple-martin-house-plans/images-large/purple-martin-birdhouse-plans-labeled.png)
Blog: The Road to 2 Million Websocket Connections in Phoenix (https://phoenixframework.org/blog/the-road-to-2-million-websocket-connections)
Raxx Elixir Webserver Interface https://hexdocs.pm/raxx/0.4.1/readme.html
Livebook Site https://livebook.dev/
Sundi’s 6’x 6’ Phoenix painting (https://twitter.com/sundikhin/status/1663930854928728064)
Surface on Hex https://hex.pm/packages/surface
Axon Deep Learning Framework https://hexdocs.pm/axon/Axon.html
Nx Numerical Elixir https://hexdocs.pm/nx/intro-to-nx.html
Phoenix PubSub https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_pubsub/Phoenix.PubSub.html
Jason Stiebs on Twitter https://twitter.com/peregrine
Jason Stiebs on Mastodon https://merveilles.town/@peregrine Special Guests: Chris McCord and Jason Stiebs.