surface VS Raxx

surface

• Course/Extensive tutorials for Phoenix 1.6?
  2 projects | reddit.com/r/elixir | 26 Dec 2021

  This is just an idea, but what about implementing using Phoenix.View(via use MyAppWeb, :view in your module)? Then assign I think has access to @conn. Then maybe work some magic to still allow Phoenix.Component syntax - but at this point, this is something I believe is a flow that might be in development. Try investigating / asking in Surface, because that is a lot more similar to React in its approach. In fact, I think Surface is where more aggressive features are pushed out, and ironed-out features get included into Phoenix. This was the case for Phoenix.Component, and HEEX.

• Porting files generated by phoenix to surface
  1 project | dev.to | 27 Oct 2021

  This post is intended to get you started with surface provided components. I provided the original code and surface versions so you can compare the differences yourself without installing anything. After installing surface following the installation guide https://surface-ui.org/getting_started add surface_bulma in your mix.exs, this will allow you to use the table component.

• We Got to LiveView
  19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Sep 2021

  I totally get the "Am I doing this the right way?" feeling, especially coming from Rails where everything was so opinionated and wanting to stay idiomatic.

  Phoenix, while it does have opinions, is far less opinionated in the sense that it doesn't do it darndest to force you into certain conventions (for example, if your module name doesn't match your file name, Phoenix won't complain). Its generators do try and push you toward using good DDD practices (which is my opinion is a GREAT thing), but of course the generators are completely optional.

  I don't have experience writing large LiveView apps but I would say that if you are familiar with any component-based frameworks (like React), I would take a look at SurfaceUI[1]. It simplifies a few "gotchas" in LiveView (though I would say they are very minor gotchas and worth learning about at some point) and gives you a component-rendering syntax more like React. Once you get going, you'll learn that LiveView doesn't have all the headaches that come with bigger React apps (like having to memoize functions or comparing props to avoid a re-render and whatnot). The recent release candidate for Phoenix 1.6 has made strides for a cleaner component syntax, but if you're having trouble with LiveView, Surface might bring some familiarity.

  [1] https://github.com/surface-ui/surface

• Phoenix 1.6.0-RC.0 Released
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Aug 2021

  Have you seen Surface UI? Pretty cool. Collection of LiveView components. https://surface-ui.org/

• Surface UI – A server-side rendering component library for Phoenix
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Apr 2021
• Letter Square: Post Mortem
  3 projects | dev.to | 3 Mar 2021

  I also did not use "vanilla" LiveView, as I used the Surface library. This is a wrapper around LiveView that brings a whole new syntax to make the experience even more comfortable.

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