Episode Details

LiveView isn't always the right answer. Chris Nelson created LiveState to enable embedding custom HTML components in other websites and connect over Phoenix channels to keep UI state on the server! LiveState takes an interesting approach that tries to keep many of the benefits of LiveView but apply it to situations like custom components in static sites hosted by other people. Chris explains how it works and what problems it solves. Check it out!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/132

Elixir Community News

• Happy New Year! Welcome to 2023!
• https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2022/12/22/cheatsheets-and-8-other-features-in-exdoc-that-improve-the-developer-experience/ – ElixirLang blog post highlighting some ExDoc features
• https://twitter.com/hugobarauna/status/1605283803668221952 – Hugo Baraúna used the new ExDoc Cheatsheet feature to add a couple Cheatsheets for Ecto.
• https://hexdocs.pm/ecto/crud.html
• https://hexdocs.pm/ecto/associations.html
• https://github.com/lukegalea/LiveBook_GoogleColab/blob/main/Google_Colab_hosted_Elixir_LiveBook_%2B_BumbleeBee_on_GPU_(Stable_Diffusion_%2B_GPT_2)_v1_0.ipynb – Luke Galea created a Livebook online with an “Open in Colab” link at the top that goes through Jupyter notebooks to run Livebook on Google Colab's free tier.
• https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/zq5d2z/run_elixir_livebook_w_bumbleebee_on_gpu_for_free/
• https://github.com/am-kantox/finitomata – Aleksei Matiushkin released a library called Finitomata that reads your PlantUML or Mermaid chart and create a state machine from it
• https://twitter.com/elixirmembrane/status/1605519154689310721 – The membrane library “membrane_rtc_engine” announced v0.8.
• https://github.com/membraneframework/membrane_rtc_engine
• https://elixirforum.com/t/webauthnlivecomponent-passwordless-auth-for-liveview-apps/49941/12 – Owen Bickford has released some early support for passkeys in browsers and mobile devices
• https://blog.chromium.org/2022/12/introducing-passkeys-in-chrome.html
• https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/sign-in-with-passkeys-iphf538ea8d0/16.0/ios/16.0
• https://hex.pm/packages/webauthn_live_component – Owen's library on Hex

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