News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018) by imtringued on Sunday May 19, 2019 @07:13AM (#19952710)
Keeping the view state in the server is what Java Server Faces did and trust me you don't want to repeat that same mistake.
Re:Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018) by mercer on Sunday May 19, 2019 @07:17AM (#19952723)
Here's an interesting response from Elixir's creator (and contributor to LiveView) specifically about JSF:

https://elixirforum.com/t/phoenix-liveview-is-now-live/20889...

I don't know JSF so I can't really argue this point, but I'd really love to hear what you think about the argument Jose put forward and where you might disagree!

Re:Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018) by chessturk on Monday May 20, 2019 @02:28PM (#19963490)
I kept a real nasty implementation of this alive for the last two years while building a REST api and React frontend to replace it.

I learned a good lesson, though: no logic in template files! Ever!