kaffy VS live_state

I haven't used Elixir yet and mostly using flask in Python for work but I started with Django (and still think it's better than flask for most apps). If stuff like https://github.com/aesmail/kaffy (first thing I've found on google, never heard of it before) is on par with the Django admin, would you still use Django or Elixir and never look back?

Phoenix has Kaffy: https://github.com/aesmail/kaffy

Super-simple to set up and it's been perfectly adequate for my app's needs so far.

To answer OP's original question: Django Admin isn't a killer feature because the same kind of thing is available for most other Django-like frameworks, with the only difference being that it's usually a third party library rather than something built into the framework itself.

For example some people don't know that there is kaffy which allows you to easily build admin interfaces for your Phoenix apps.

I’ll be glad to get your feedback about Kaffy if you get a chance to try it.

Since you mention that state management is an unsolved problem with Web Components, I thought I would share a project that aims to bring a solution: https://github.com/launchscout/live_state. The basic pattern and idea of LiveState is "dispatch events, subscribe to state". The events and state updates are sent over a websocket connection, and the front end and back end libraries are a thin layer over Phoenix Channels. Currently, event handler functions are written in Elixir, but work is underway to allow them to be written in any language that compiles to WebAssembly.

We have switched to Elixir and Phoenix as our go to stack gradually over the last 5 years. We've found that LiveView in particular, with it's ability to avoid a separate front-end framework altogether, has let us deliver applications to clients in a significantly more productive way. We were a rails shop back in the day, and were able to build things very quickly. When the whole front-end framework thing got big, it slowed us down a lot because we were building two applications, essentially. Now that we are able to go fast again we (and our clients) are enjoying things a lot more.

I should also say that if you do need to use a separate front-end for whatever reason, I've built a thing called LiveState: https://github.com/launchscout/live_state that lets you keep things far simpler and gives a "LiveView like" experience.

Another option would be https://github.com/launchscout/live_state

Thank you, haven't seen this before. Similar to LiveState[0] also

[0] https://github.com/launchscout/live_state

I've been working on a thing to manage state via phoenix channels called live_state. The basic is idea is the front end code dispatches events which are sent up the channel, and receives state updates which are sent down the channel. The initial client I've done is js, and examples are for custom elements, but it should be fairly portable if it is of interest. I gave a talk on it at Elixirconf, video should be up eventually.