I seem to remember in the original announcement presentation there was a demo of SVG being updated inside a page 60 times per second. All from server. Did this actually become feasible? I’m thinking graphs and maps with live data. I might not need as smooth animation there. Though that could make for nice dashboards.
Other bit that interests me is web apps for long running tasks. What’s the story in Phoenix and Elixir land for handling external shell processes from web requests? I’m trying to do lightweight job control without investing into separate systems for processing pipelines, CI/CD and the like.
Thank you for Live View. It continues to be an inspiration even though I haven’t yet had a chance to dive into server side of it.
The 60fps rainbow works as a fun stress test demo, but really you should not be pushing events down the wire every 16ms to animate something on the client :)
That said, you are right that SVG charts/maps are a surprisingly fantastic fit for LiveView. You could actually render a fully interactive and dynamically updating chart by only sending SVGs – and it will probably send less data than hydrating the same client-side chart with JSON! Check out the Context Chart lib for some examples. They have some links running LiveView examples if you scroll down:
https://contex-charts.org
> What’s the story in Phoenix and Elixir land for handling external shell processes from web requests
Great story here thru erlang ports. I'm a big fan of the Porcelain library which wraps ports with some nice features on top:
https://github.com/alco/porcelain
Hey, thanks a lot. These are great tips. Context Charts look really good and lightweight to run. Porcelain seems verty promising. Guess I’ll start with one of the tutorials elsewhere in the thread. Good info here all around. Much appreciated.
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I seem to remember in the original announcement presentation there was a demo of SVG being updated inside a page 60 times per second. All from server. Did this actually become feasible? I’m thinking graphs and maps with live data. I might not need as smooth animation there. Though that could make for nice dashboards.
Other bit that interests me is web apps for long running tasks. What’s the story in Phoenix and Elixir land for handling external shell processes from web requests? I’m trying to do lightweight job control without investing into separate systems for processing pipelines, CI/CD and the like.
Thank you for Live View. It continues to be an inspiration even though I haven’t yet had a chance to dive into server side of it.