[sb8244]

Congrats! This stable release is huge.

I built my (unfortunately) failed startup using LiveView for ~18 months. It was actually really good to work with and a great product experience.

I ended up integrating React into it as well for some particularly complex / mature libraries (react-grid-layout, WYSIWYG editor). Pretty seamless connection to backend LiveViews, and I tried to keep everything in LV as possible.

The biggest difficulty was hitting problems that I had solved 50 times in React, and had to solve from-scratch in LiveView. Once I figured out a problem, I could re-use it easily.

[learning_elixir]

What were the problems and how did you solve them?

[sb8244]

It varies. Literally everything from how modals work, notifications, etc. all had to be written. The things that I take for granted in my React app were fairly complex to figure out.

I know there are paradigms to handle that now, although the details get complex in practice. For example, the idea of a "portal" in react is actually really important for layering modals and popups properly, but it can be difficult in LiveView.

The biggest single challenge I remember hitting was dynamic recursive forms (for example a logic builder). It took a lot of effort to get right.