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# elixir-htmx
  • r
    elixir**
  • r
    (I don't use the framework, this is not an endorsement, but friend does)
  • m
    pseudo-endorsement endorsed
  • c
    I 💜 Elixir 💜🧪
  • j
  • g
    I'm trying to get htmx more incrementally adopted at SmartLogic, an elixir consultancy
  • g
    wish me luck! 😄
  • g
    i just brought in hyperscript and am doing a lunch demo for them. the initial reactions to using it and the developers that are working on it is "holy shit."
  • m
    HA
  • e
    @gentle-dream-18175 That's awesome. How does Phoenix LiveWire compare to htmx? Are they similar? My assumption is that you can replicate a lot of the functionality of LiveView in htmx with Server sent events and websockets.
  • g
    liveview is just more specific, more fully featured than htmx in the specific elixir controller world. i use htmx when i need some interactivity, and use liveview when i want the whole shebang
  • g
    i just make that decision as a matter-of-degrees sort of thing
  • m
    What is your LiveWire experience?
  • m
    iirc, Caleb was saying that it relies on morphdom and morphdom can sometimes be a little janky
  • m
    his comments were actually one of the reasons I'm starting to think about idiomorph: https://github.com/bigskysoftware/idiomorph/blob/main/README.md
  • m
    to try to inform merges w/ some child information without blowing out perf
  • f
    Are you a super villain? B/c it looks like you are trying to take over the world w/ htmx . --signed Mr Jealous.
  • m
    Time to make them billions
  • m
    Sure, the software is BSD licensed, but we'll make it up on volume
  • g
    To be honest, I'm leaning more towards LiveView as a primary driver than htmx, but they adhere to the same principles (for the most part) which means i don't feel as guilty for betraying htmx 😛
  • c
    Hey. Any minimal example for how to serve HTMX in a restful hypermedia-driven API with Elixir? Phoenix seems too bloated for me
  • e
    i don't really know any example application written in elixir and htmx, but I would try searching some minimal http server written with plug and replace json response with some html
  • e
    there are a lot of lang-htmx channels here, but for most of the langs out there there is the same approach: lang + some http server lib + some tempalting engine + htmx.js script
  • e
    for minimal elixir htmx application, the stack would be following: elixir + EEx + Plug (with cowboy http server) + htmx.js
  • e
    also interesting fact: otp is bundled together with mnesia nosql database, so you have storage option ootb
  • r
    I went searching for an HTMX package on hex, but found nothing: https://hex.pm/packages?search=htmx&sort=recent_downloads In that case, has anyone managed to integrate HTMX with Phoenix/LivewView?
  • r
    To be fair Phoenix is quite customizable: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/Mix.Tasks.Phx.New.html (see all the commands starting with 
    --no
    ) You can also build your own:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0Z4wu4CPgQ▾

    😄
  • n
    can I serve htmx from a plain elixir http server?
  • g
    you can serve htmx fragments from any http server, even an Nginx proxy
  • n
    cool