36: Using LiveView and Hooks with Alex Minette

Alexandre Minette shares his adventures with LiveView as he builds a personal finance tracking application. We cover his use of hooks to integrate Javascript libraries that give him the UX he wants. He shares some tips and resources for finding Javascript libraries that work well with LiveView. Alex pushes browser locale data up to the server to customize rendering dates and times for a fun and different approach. We also get his perspective on using Flutter for Mobile development and where he thinks it fits with web technologies like LiveView.

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/36

Elixir Community News

• https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ – Elixir is number 48 in the TIOBE index


• https://twitter.com/MarlusSaraiva/status/1360254701808324615 – Surface Catalogue in the works. Similar to a "React Storybook" but for LiveView Surface components.


• https://twitter.com/wbruce/status/1359299409196896259 – Bruce Williams, co-founder of the Absinthe library announced he's stepping away from being an active core contributor.


• https://dashbit.co/blog/building-a-custom-broadway-producer-for-the-twitter-stream-api – Dashbit new blog post on using Broadway to consume a Twitter Stream API


• https://github.com/erlang/otp/issues – Erlang OTP has moved the project to Github for issue management.


• https://stillstatic.io/ – New static site generator called Still


• https://dalgona.github.io/Serum/ – Alternative Elixir static site generator


• https://hexdocs.pm/nerves_system_rpi0/changelog.html#v1-14-0 – New release for Nerves, v1.40. Bring native Apple M1 support and more.

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

Discussion Resources

• https://alex-min.fr/phoenix-live-view-very-large-list-hook/


• https://alex-min.fr/live-view-browser-timezone/


• https://github.com/fulmicoton/fattable/ - Fattable JS library


• https://www.npmjs.com/package/moment


• https://plaid.com/


• http://microjs.com


• http://cldr.unicode.org/


• https://github.com/kipcole9


• https://github.com/elixir-cldr/cldr


• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZvmYaFkNJI - Chris McCord's 15 minute Twitter video


• https://flutter.dev/

Guest Information

• https://github.com/alex-min – on Github


• https://alex-min.fr/ – Blog

Find us online

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• Email the show - [email protected]


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• David Bernheisel - @bernheisel


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