14: LiveView and Airtable with Ricardo Garcia Vega

Huge batch of news! Then we talk with Ricardo Garcia Vega about how he paired a Phoenix application with no database Repo to an Airtable backend to quickly solve a problem but without compromising on speed or reliability. Includes great discussion of ETS tables, GenServers for syncing a cache, LiveView for live updates, links to great resources, a github repo for doing it yourself and much more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/14

Elixir Community News

• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqj39LCvnOWZl_Pb0Y7wGWijKbTvL4gJg – ElixirConf US 2020 Online keynote talks


• https://twitter.com/elixirlang/status/1305415089600835587 – Elixir v1.11.0-rc.0 released


• https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/003-elixir-1-11-preview-with-wojtek-mach/ – Discussion about new features in Elixir 1.11


• SpawnFest news


• https://github.com/spawnfest/continuum – New Queue system based on files and how email is organized


• https://github.com/spawnfest/shaker – Convert your rebar3 projects to mix


• https://github.com/spawnfest/beamwork – “Spotlight” Phoenix Live Dashboard graphs on Phoenix response times


• https://github.com/spawnfest/bakeware – Self-contained cross-platform executables for Elixir/Erlang


• https://github.com/spawnfest/livechart – “Uncharted” dependency-free LiveView-powered SVG charts


• https://twitter.com/codebeamio/status/1304370824573485056 – Static Typed Erlang from WhatsApp and Facebook


• https://codesync.global/uploads/media/activity_slides/0001/03/f2292f201aa6b04db8c4e0b9cfa191dd07c9ee14.pdf – Presentation slides about Static Typed Erlang


• https://www.elixirconf.eu/ – ElixirConf EU will be held 7-8 of October


• https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1304399735445426176 – JIT comes to the ErlangVM


• https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/2745 – PR that includes some interesting documentation and explanation


• https://github.com/erlang-ls/erlang_ls – An Erlang Language Server is now available


• https://elixirforum.com/t/try-erlfmt-today/34307 – erlfmt is an Erlang language syntax formatter

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]

Discussion Resources

• http://codeloveandboards.com/blog/2020/07/02/headless-cms-fun-with-phoenix-liveview-and-airtable-pt-1/


• http://codeloveandboards.com/blog/2020/07/11/headless-cms-fun-with-phoenix-liveview-and-airtable-pt-2/


• http://codeloveandboards.com/blog/2020/07/19/headless-cms-fun-with-phoenix-liveview-and-airtable-pt-3/


• http://codeloveandboards.com/blog/2020/07/27/headless-cms-fun-with-phoenix-liveview-and-airtable-pt-4/


• https://phoenixcms.herokuapp.com/


• https://github.com/bigardone/phoenix-cms


• https://cabify.com/es


• https://airtable.com/


• https://airtable.com/product


• https://elm-lang.org/


• https://webflow.com/


• https://elm-pages.com/


• https://github.com/teamon/tesla – The HTTP client used in his solution


• https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/dom-patching.html#temporary-assigns

Guest Information

• https://twitter.com/bigardone – on Twitter


• https://github.com/bigardone/ – on Github


• http://codeloveandboards.com/ – Blog

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