surface VS phoenix_html

Compare surface vs phoenix_html and see what are their differences.

surface

A server-side rendering component library for Phoenix (by msaraiva)

phoenix_html

Building blocks for working with HTML in Phoenix (by phoenixframework)
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surface phoenix_html
11 0
1,982 378
1.3% 2.4%
7.8 7.6
6 days ago 23 days ago
Elixir Elixir
MIT License MIT License
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surface

Posts with mentions or reviews of surface. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-04.
  • htmlgui.nvim - Create html + css + lua apps with neovim as 'browser'. ( proof of concept )
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 4 Jun 2023
    I should have been more clear that my intent was to create/use a compiler for some kind of component syntax. There are lots of them, from Surface (Elixir), Blade (PHP/Laravel), and JSX (React, Vue, Etc)
  • Would you still choose Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView if scaling and performance weren’t an issue to solve for?
    3 projects | /r/elixir | 7 Mar 2023
  • Why I selected Elixir and Phoenix as my main stack
    36 projects | dev.to | 21 Jan 2023
    There I learned more deeply about LiveView and Surface UI.
  • Something similar to Vuetify for Phoenix LiveView?
    2 projects | /r/elixir | 3 Dec 2022
    I think Surface is the ideal candidate for this. But it doesn’t have the components you are looking for but you can build anything with it. Hopefully, in future we can have set of headless components built using Surface 🤞
  • Course/Extensive tutorials for Phoenix 1.6?
    2 projects | /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.
  • 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/
  • 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.

phoenix_html

Posts with mentions or reviews of phoenix_html. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing surface and phoenix_html you can also consider the following projects:

webassembly - Web DSL for Elixir

react_phoenix - Make rendering React.js components in Phoenix easy

phoenix_pubsub_rabbitmq - RabbitMQ adapter for Phoenix's PubSub layer

phoenix_live_reload - Provides live-reload functionality for Phoenix

plug - Compose web applications with functions

torch - A rapid admin generator for Elixir & Phoenix

phx_component_helpers - Extensible Phoenix liveview components, without boilerplate

phoenix_ecto - Phoenix and Ecto integration with support for concurrent acceptance testing

kerosene - Pagination for Ecto and Pheonix.

ex_admin - ExAdmin is an auto administration package for Elixir and the Phoenix Framework

phoenix_live_view - Rich, real-time user experiences with server-rendered HTML

rummage_phoenix - Full Phoenix Support for Rummage. It can be used for searching, sorting and paginating collections in phoenix.