contex VS phoenix-liveview-counter-tutorial

Thanks! And thanks also for your work on ContEx, its Sparkline module [1] was a big inspiration for what I ended up implementing.

[1] https://github.com/mindok/contex/blob/master/lib/chart/spark...

Now, if you were using a server-side charting library like ContEx, then you would just append the new events to what you've already got assigned to the socket, and your normal rendering function would rebuild the chart. You're done! But I wanted to make it more complicated.

https://contex-charts.org

> What’s the story in Phoenix and Elixir land for handling external shell processes from web requests

Great story here thru erlang ports. I'm a big fan of the Porcelain library which wraps ports with some nice features on top:

Step up Contex!

Here's an gist of it: https://github.com/dwyl/phoenix-liveview-counter-tutorial https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/form-bindings.html

I think the learning curve is not all that steep.

This is a pretty good liveview tutorial: https://github.com/dwyl/phoenix-liveview-counter-tutorial

We also have a hiring project that's designed to ease people in to Phoenix + LiveView. We extracted this from a real app and tried to make it as simple as possible to work on: https://github.com/fly-hiring/phoenix-full-stack-work-sample