liveviews VS daisyui

If you want to try the liveview approach but not ready to work with Elixir / Erlang / Beam runtime, you can use liveview in 17 popular languages (Java / C# / Javascript / Typescript / PHP / Python, e.t.c.).

https://github.com/liveviews/liveviews

Below are introduction directly quoted from this list:

> This is a list of libraries for creating web applications that handle user interaction with the DOM on the server. These libraries take a different approach from older server-driven browser UIs that simulated a desktop GUI toolkit. They do not lock the developer into working with predefined components; most operate at the level of HTML (DOM) rather than GUI widgets.

> The list strives to be complete rather than awesome. You may see libraries that are not maintained or ready for production.

This approach allows you to handle business logics on the server, and update the screen in browser from the server as well.

[1] https://github.com/liveviews/liveviews

That's a conflation. I'm certain for at least some, the choice is more about using a single language than avoiding JS. I'm sure there are people using htmx who use a JS backend. There are at least 5 LiveView clones for JS for instance: https://github.com/liveviews/liveviews#javascripttypescript

Nuxt, Next, SvelteKit, Phoenix(Elixr), Blazor, and various liveview-likes are popular full stack frameworks. So, although many devs are becoming specialized, there certainly still are full stack developers with demand enough to strongly support several frameworks.

The list is seeking a maintainer. https://github.com/liveviews/liveviews/issues/23

> "different" platform with it's own unique patterns and quirks

Everything OP listed was a criticism directed at LiveView, the 'Live App' functionality, not Phoenix, the web framework. Live Apps are not exclusive to Phoenix either, as there are now imitators for every other web framework now, which at least speaks to its broader appeal amongst developers. So the criticism could be leveled towards the far less mature 'Live App' libraries on PHP/Python/JS/C# and so on and on:

https://github.com/liveviews/liveviews

However there are two ways you can do this server side: 1. Use a tool similar to live view: https://github.com/dbohdan/liveviews

DaisyUI offers zero-JS components

https://daisyui.com/

I used it for a small form + search result list recently and it works well enough for simple / static stuff.

But I think I'll still be reaching for a JS lib first since I'd miss things like inputs-with-autocomplete too much.

Tailwind is great, but creating everything from scratch is annoying. A nice base of components which can be extended with tailwind would be great. There are a few tailwind frameworks like Flowbite, Daisy Ui, but I like Bulma, PicoCSS and Bootstrap.

While I have experience with Tailwind and frontend development, I don’t really have the patience to use it. I usually end up using something like Mantine, which is a complete component library UI kit, or Daisy UI, which is a component library built on top of Tailwind. Shadcn/ui is quite similar to Daisy in this sense, but being able to customize the individual components, since they get installed to your components folder, made development more streamlined and more customizable. On top of that being able to change my components style with natural language thanks to v0 made development super easy and fast. Shadcn may be too minimalist of a style for some, but thanks to all the components being local, you can customize them quickly and easily!

https://daisyui.com is a really great middle ground—you can move as fast as you would in Bulma, then drop down into the weeds with TW if you need it.

If you're looking for grab and go components, Daisy UI or Flowbite might be more your speed, I've used both with minimal headache.

https://daisyui.com/

This guide is tailored for front-end developers looking to explore the smooth integration of DaisyUI's stylish components, Alpine.js's minimalist reactive framework, and the straightforward back-end capabilities of Codehooks.io.

Others:

  - https://daisyui.com/