After experience with a LiveView “anti-pattern”, Andy Glassman developed an “Async Pattern” for loading data into a LiveView. Andy shares the problem this helps solve and we discuss when it's a good fit. We also talk with Andy about the current state of “admin tools” in Elixir and he shares his feelings on the importance of building admin tools from the start in our projects.

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/160

Elixir Community News

https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1678411790361718786 – A new Livebook version should have been released with a new “Presentation View” feature
https://2023.elixirconf.com/presenters#speakers – List of speakers for ElixirConf US 2023 has been released along with their talk topics.
https://paraxial.io/blog/app-audit – Inspecting Elixir Dependencies at Runtime for Security
https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1678536270664876033 – José Valim completed his live-coding work to load database results directly into Explorer dataframes with ADBC
https://github.com/elixir-explorer/explorer/pull/648 – ADBC work resulted in a PR
https://twitter.com/mitchhanberg/status/1676611642786820096 – Mitch Hanberg announced the first public release of Next LS and an elixir-tools update.
https://www.elixir-tools.dev/news/introducing-next-ls-and-an-elixir-tools-update/ – To get started with Next LS, either install the “Elixir Tools” NeoVim extension or the “Elixir Tools” VSCode extension.
https://twitter.com/joao_lubien/status/1676983495476891648 – Lubien wrote a mix task to turn any Phoenix Site into a static site.
https://github.com/lubien/single-file-phoenix-static/blob/main/lib/mix/tasks/generate_static.ex – Lubien's example mix task
https://tylerayoung.com/2023/07/08/hiring-elixir-devs/ – Tyler Young wrote a blog post with tips for companies wanting to hire Elixir devs.
https://twitter.com/TylerAYoung/status/1677635466990874626 – Tyler's Twitter thread
https://johnelmlabs.com/posts/magic-link-auth/ – John Curran wrote up a nice guide for how to build the “magic link” feature into mix gen.auth generated code
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10664-023-10343-6 – Paper about Elixir was submitted to the Empirical Software Engineering journal titled “Understanding code smells in Elixir functional language”
https://twitter.com/peregrine/status/1676984142251081728 – Jason Stiebs wrote a post about how “Elixir Docs are Built Different”
https://fly.io/phoenix-files/elixir-docs-are-built-different/ – Article that guides people on using the Elixir docs.

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com

Discussion Resources

https://blog.andyglassman.com/2023/06/phoenix-liveview-async-assign-pattern.html – Phoenix Live View - Async Assigns
https://blog.andyglassman.com/2022/08/write-admin-tools-from-day-one.html – Write Admin Tools From Day One
https://sway.dm/info/
https://www.empex.co/new-york
https://github.com/aesmail/kaffy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c9kMmxeSA0 – Andy Glassman - Write Admin Tools from Day One (EMPEX)
https://github.com/pragdave/earmark
https://activeadmin.info/
https://github.com/ash-project/ash_admin
https://www.postman.com/collection/

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/a_glassman – on Twitter
https://github.com/aglassman/ – on Github
https://blog.andyglassman.com/ – Blog

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