phoenix_live_view VS Alpine.js

Compare phoenix_live_view vs Alpine.js and see what are their differences.

phoenix_live_view

Rich, real-time user experiences with server-rendered HTML (by phoenixframework)

Alpine.js

A rugged, minimal framework for composing JavaScript behavior in your markup. (by alpinejs)
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phoenix_live_view Alpine.js
30 242
5,749 26,798
1.4% 1.8%
9.8 9.3
4 days ago 4 days ago
Elixir HTML
MIT License MIT License
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phoenix_live_view

Posts with mentions or reviews of phoenix_live_view. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-29.
  • Coming to grips with JS: a Rubyist's deep dive
    16 projects | dev.to | 29 Dec 2023
    Then there are stack-specific libraries: StimulusReflex for Rails, Phoenix LiveView, Laravel Livewire, Unicorn and Tetra for Django, Blazor for .NET, … and the list goes on.
  • O que faz uma linguagem ser boa?
    1 project | /r/brdev | 6 Dec 2023
  • Undead - LiveViews for the JVM
    2 projects | /r/java | 10 Nov 2023
    I came across this pretty interesting library on Hacker News that tries to implement LiveView on the JVM. Link to GitHub.
  • Show HN: Podsee – AI tool for podcast listeners
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Oct 2023
    Hi everyone, I just launched Podsee(https://pods.ee) for podcast listeners, lovers. You can search and listen to podcasts at Podsee. What makes it different is that you can get the AI transcript for an episode.

    It started as a side project after I resigned my job one year ago. As a programmer, I love Elixir (http://elixir-lang.org/) and Phoenix LiveView(https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view), and want to make a product with it. So I build Podsee.

    I'm planning to add more AI features to it, like summarize the episode audio, episode to comics, etc.

    I'd love to invite you all to try out the product and would appreciate hearing your feedback! Thanks!

  • Phoenix LiveView new release 0.19
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 30 May 2023
  • Real-time tracking web app
    1 project | /r/gis | 14 Apr 2023
    Phoenix LiveView
  • Ask HN: What companies are embracing “HTML over the wire”?
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Feb 2023
    "HTML over the wire" generally refers to tech like [0] Liveview, [1] Hotwire, [2] LiveView, [3] Blazor, etc. They aren't about about ditching JS and more about not writing your HTML in JS (and yes, SSR).

    [0] https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view

  • Alpine.js
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jan 2023
    * https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view
  • Phoenix 1.7 is View-less
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Dec 2022
    Some of the 1.7 stuff has an alert banner that pops up when the connection is broken. I think that could really help.

    However I haven't put that in our app as I have seen other issues of flakey connection reconnect issues, and I would hate to make any of those more visible with a flashing notice.

    - https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/issues...

  • What did I miss?
    4 projects | /r/elixir | 9 Nov 2022
    HEEx template language was created, an extension to EEx

Alpine.js

Posts with mentions or reviews of Alpine.js. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-09.
  • Biometric authentication with Passkeys
    3 projects | dev.to | 9 Mar 2024
    Alpine.js for reactive frontend
  • 🤓 My top 3 Go packages that I wish I'd known about earlier
    6 projects | dev.to | 1 Mar 2024
    ✨ In recent months, I have been developing web projects using GOTTHA stack: Go + Templ + Tailwind CSS + htmx + Alpine.js. As soon as I'm ready to talk about all the subtleties and pitfalls, I'll post it on my social networks.
  • Htmx Is Composable?
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jan 2024
    > But honestly, torn towards htmx but undecided.

    We are in the middle of migrating from our monster react application into server rendered pages (with jinja2). The velocity at which we are able to ship and the reduction of complexity has been great so far.

    Managing client side state for simple things like (is the dropdown open/closed), listening to keyboard events and such can be done with something like alpine-js [1] without all the baggage that something like react brings.

    It appears this is already the trend with JS frameworks too - with server side rendering being the new norm.

    [1] https://alpinejs.dev/

  • Pocketbase: Open-source back end in 1 file
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jan 2024
  • Coming to grips with JS: a Rubyist's deep dive
    16 projects | dev.to | 29 Dec 2023
    Sure, you can use any number of JS-avoidance libraries. I'm a fan of Turbo, and there's also htmx, Unpoly, Alpine, hyperscript, swup, barba.js, and probably others.
  • What is your opinion about developers who do direct DOM manipulations instead of using modern web frameworks (like React, Vue, Angular) to achieve maximum performance?
    1 project | /r/webdev | 6 Dec 2023
    Direct DOM, but with a library. Specifically AlpineJS since it follows Vue closely in design practices allowing me to scale into a full web application if necessary (basically swapping to Vue takes minimal work). The Morph plugin is specifically what I like using.
  • Kicking the tires with NestJS and Hotwire: Part II
    2 projects | dev.to | 15 Nov 2023
    If you want more details on the initial setup I encourage you to take a look at the Part I that covers more of the initial implementation. For this portion, I added Prisma as an ORM, a frontend style library called Tachyons, and AlpineJS to handle any client-side interactions. I did this to avoid needing to add a client-side bundler to the build and instead just rely on plain old module imports to compose the frontend. This is now the default for Rails and it is quite nice to not need any additional build tools for the client.
  • Deveplop a simple GUI app by Wails use Golang
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Nov 2023
    - [swallow-pywebview](https://github.com/rangwea/swallow-pywebview): Base on [pywebview](https://pywebview.flowrl.com/) using Python,the frontend base on [alpinejs](https://alpinejs.dev/) and [tailwindcss](https://tailwindcss.com/)。
  • How to Make an Animated Number Counter with Tailwind CSS
    1 project | dev.to | 3 Oct 2023
    If you’ve followed our other tutorials, you might be familiar with Alpine.js. It’s a lightweight JavaScript library that allows you to add interactivity to your site without writing a single line of JavaScript. It’s incredibly easy to use, and we’ll show you how to make the animation trigger when the user scrolls to it.
  • A First Look at HTMX and How it Compares to React
    6 projects | dev.to | 18 Sep 2023
    The approach is not new, essentially a variation of Knockout, Alpine, and similar "JS-in-HTML" approaches.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing phoenix_live_view and Alpine.js you can also consider the following projects:

Svelte - Cybernetically enhanced web apps

htmx - </> htmx - high power tools for HTML

petite-vue - 6kb subset of Vue optimized for progressive enhancement

hotwire-rails - Use Hotwire in your Ruby on Rails app

Blitz - ⚡️ The Missing Fullstack Toolkit for Next.js

React - The library for web and native user interfaces.

livewire - A full-stack framework for Laravel that takes the pain out of building dynamic UIs.

Stimulus - A modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have [Moved to: https://github.com/hotwired/stimulus]

Phoenix - Peace of mind from prototype to production

hyperscript - Create HyperText with JavaScript.