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by Existenceblinks 2540 days ago
Phoenix LiveView is the Google Stadia of web app. Browser is just like a console for sending commands over an established connection (stateful) to server. It's pushing computation and state management to servers, and eliminating a lot of steps e.g. encoding huge internal data structure to json, api endpoints design, huge javascript downloading and parsing, re-rending that data with template on client side. If you use a compile-to-js language on frontend, the extra step is to decode json into internal types as well.

LiveView is the haven for apps that are focusing on B2B and internal tools in organizations. Because it doesn't have to support offline usage, and cost effective since you don't have to have a frontend team.