42: LiveView Autocomplete and Blogging with Velina Petrova

We talk with Velina Petrova about a blog post she wrote showing how a "designer dreamed up" feature was delivered using LiveView and Alpine.js. She shares how she added the LiveView feature to a non-LiveView page demonstrating a great strategy for slowly moving a project in the direction you want to go without stopping to re-write. We also talk about blogging, the value of sharing and putting yourself out there. We all share some tips we've found helpful when creating content. A fun discussion with some great tips and tools shared!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/42

Elixir Community News

• https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1375764118255382529 – Another OTP 24 feature improves Erlang error messages


• http://erlang.org/eeps/eep-0054.html – OTP 24 EEP 54 information


• https://www.erlang.org/news/146 – OTP 24 RC 2 was released


• https://discord.gg/w4fQWsMTcH – Elixir Book club Discord server


• https://pragprog.com/titles/jgotp/designing-elixir-systems-with-otp/ – Elixir book club book - Designing Elixir Systems with OTP


• https://github.com/thoughtbot/bamboo/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#202---2021-03-26 – German Valesco is maintaining Bamboo, pushing more releases


• https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/25/ruby_rails_code/ – Library problems in the Ruby on Rails community


• https://pagure.io/mailcap/blob/master/f/mime.types – Elixir's mime type database source


• https://github.com/elixir-plug/mime/blob/master/priv/mime.types – Plug's mime types file


• https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1374998681607372802 – Jose's perspective on dependencies


• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/blob/master/mix.exs – Phoenix LiveView's dependencies


• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/phps-git-server-hacked-to-add-backdoors-to-php-source-code/ – PHP's self-hosted git server compromised leading to malicious code being inserted but caught


• https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/113838 – PHP project moves to Github for hosting official git project


• https://seanmoriarity.com/ – Sean Moriarity's blog posting Nx tips

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Discussion Resources

• https://medium.com/everyday-elixir/autocomplete-search-component-with-phoenix-liveview-and-alpinejs-4a98b7287b9f – Auto-complete implemented in LiveView


• https://github.com/velinapetrova/autocomplete_search – Github repo accompanying blog post


• https://www.mindvalley.com/about


• https://github.com/alpinejs/alpine/ – Alpine.js project


• https://github.com/downshift-js/downshift


• https://balsamiq.com/


• https://excalidraw.com/ – Drawing tool for diagrams, wire-frames and sketches


• https://elixirstream.dev – A place to share your large or small tips.


• https://velina-petrova.medium.com/

Guest Information

• https://twitter.com/VelinaPetrova7 – on Twitter


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


• https://velina-petrova.medium.com/ – Blog

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