[nickjj]

I've noticed this trend with folks who move from Rails to Phoenix. At some point they switch and then never look at Rails again even if it's been years since they stopped using it. It's not like Rails was frozen in time at 2017 when they stopped using it. There's been 5+ years of progress since then.

Hotwire is one of the best things I've encountered. DHH and gang did a great job coming up with this abstraction and using HTTP for most of its communication. I'm using it today in a fairly big app and it was a breeze implementing it.

Complexity wise I'd put Phoenix Live View at like an 8.5/10 where as Hotwire feels more like a 3/10 since it builds on everything you already know. For creating just about any app I'd choose Hotwire all the time and it's also especially interesting in that you can use something other than Rails as a back-end with it if you want. I used it with Flask in a few small apps. The only server side component is for when you want to broadcast changes to more than the person who made the request but that's optional.