surface VS turbo

Compare surface vs turbo and see what are their differences.

surface

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

turbo

Incremental bundler and build system optimized for JavaScript and TypeScript, written in Rust – including Turbopack and Turborepo. (by vercel)
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surface turbo
11 57
1,990 24,900
1.6% 2.3%
7.8 9.9
15 days ago 1 day ago
Elixir Rust
MIT License Mozilla Public License 2.0
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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 🤞
  • Single source of truth with Phoenix LiveView
    1 project | dev.to | 7 Sep 2022
    I have worked with Phoenix LiveView and Surface-UI for about a year; I would like to share some of the things I learned the hard way.
  • 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.
  • 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

turbo

Posts with mentions or reviews of turbo. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-14.
  • Supermemory - ChatGPT for your bookmarks
    2 projects | dev.to | 14 Apr 2024
    Supermemory has three main modules, managed by turborepo:
  • Next.js Shopify eCommerce Starter with Perfect Web Vitals 🚀
    2 projects | dev.to | 12 Apr 2024
    From a structural viewpoint, we use a monorepo (Turborepo) to manage packages, even though we currently have only one Next.js app. We chose this setup because it prepares us for future developments, which will include additional apps. This arrangement helps keep the packages well-separated and self-contained.
  • dev.to wrapped 2023 🎁
    2 projects | dev.to | 7 Dec 2023
    # src Dockerfile: https://github.com/vercel/turbo/blob/main/examples/with-docker/apps/web/Dockerfile FROM node:18-alpine AS alpine # setup pnpm on the alpine base FROM alpine as base ENV PNPM_HOME="/pnpm" ENV PATH="$PNPM_HOME:$PATH" RUN corepack enable RUN pnpm install turbo --global FROM base AS builder # Check https://github.com/nodejs/docker-node/tree/b4117f9333da4138b03a546ec926ef50a31506c3#nodealpine to understand why libc6-compat might be needed. RUN apk add --no-cache libc6-compat RUN apk update # Set working directory WORKDIR /app COPY . . RUN turbo prune --scope=web --docker # Add lockfile and package.json's of isolated subworkspace FROM base AS installer RUN apk add --no-cache libc6-compat RUN apk update WORKDIR /app # First install the dependencies (as they change less often) COPY .gitignore .gitignore COPY --from=builder /app/out/json/ . COPY --from=builder /app/out/pnpm-lock.yaml ./pnpm-lock.yaml COPY --from=builder /app/out/pnpm-workspace.yaml ./pnpm-workspace.yaml RUN pnpm install # Build the project COPY --from=builder /app/out/full/ . COPY turbo.json turbo.json RUN turbo run build --filter=web # use alpine as the thinest image FROM alpine AS runner WORKDIR /app # Don't run production as root RUN addgroup --system --gid 1001 nodejs RUN adduser --system --uid 1001 nextjs USER nextjs COPY --from=installer /app/apps/web/next.config.js . COPY --from=installer /app/apps/web/package.json . # Automatically leverage output traces to reduce image size # https://nextjs.org/docs/advanced-features/output-file-tracing COPY --from=installer --chown=nextjs:nodejs /app/apps/web/.next/standalone ./ COPY --from=installer --chown=nextjs:nodejs /app/apps/web/.next/static ./apps/web/.next/static COPY --from=installer --chown=nextjs:nodejs /app/apps/web/public ./apps/web/public CMD node apps/web/server.js
  • .dockerignore being ignored by docker-compose? no space left on device
    3 projects | /r/docker | 5 Dec 2023
    Following this example: https://github.com/vercel/turbo/tree/main/examples/with-docker/apps/web. Except I'm using pnpm. Edit Reddit Codeblocks are horrible and keeps removing all formatting.
  • How to Win Any Hackathon 🚀🤑
    7 projects | dev.to | 2 Nov 2023
    The Dockerfile might seem a bit complicated (it is), but the reason for that is mostly just turborepo and the need for good caching. Realistically, you will only need to change the last line, if at all. It is based on this awesome Github Issue.
  • PURISTA: Build with rimraf, esbuild, Turbo & git-cliff
    3 projects | dev.to | 11 Sep 2023
    PURISTA is organized in a monorepo. During the development and build process, Turbo is used to execute different tasks and steps on multiple packages with one command.
  • How I approach and structure Enterprise frontend applications after 4 years of using Next.js
    5 projects | dev.to | 9 Sep 2023
    Turbo repo
  • Vercel Integration and Next.js App Router Support
    3 projects | dev.to | 10 Aug 2023
    Previously we mapped each Vercel project to a single Supabase project. With this release, we're introducing the concept of project 'Connections'. Supabase projects can have an unlimited number of Vercel Connections. This is especially useful for monorepos using Turborepo.
  • How Turborepo is porting from Go to Rust
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jul 2023
    One detail I enjoy from this post is that sometimes you can just call a CLI[0]. It's easy to spend a lot of time figuring out how to expose some Rust/C code as a library for your language, but I like the simplicity of just compiling, shipping the binary and then calling it as a subprocess.

    Yes, there's overhead in starting a new process to "just call a function", but I think this approach is still underutilized.

    [0]: https://github.com/vercel/turbo/blob/c0ee0dea7388d1081512c93...

  • App Router example repos
    6 projects | /r/nextjs | 30 Jun 2023

What are some alternatives?

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

react_phoenix - Make rendering React.js components in Phoenix easy

esbuild - An extremely fast bundler for the web

torch - A rapid admin generator for Elixir & Phoenix

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

phx_component_helpers - Extensible Phoenix liveview components, without boilerplate

create-t3-app - The best way to start a full-stack, typesafe Next.js app

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

parcel - The zero configuration build tool for the web. 📦🚀

Raxx - Interface for HTTP webservers, frameworks and clients

buck2 - Build system, successor to Buck

plug - Compose web applications with functions

Turbolinks - Turbolinks makes navigating your web application faster