Drab: remote controlled frontend framework for Phoenix

OK, perhaps my comment was too simple. Phoenix has a unique set of features that make stuff like this possible and potentially performant for broad use cases.

Having a client → server → client communication path can be slow but it isn’t any slower than traditional server rendered web apps. It’s even faster using web sockets. Is Drab doing something different? Perhaps I misunderstood how it works. Anything with a sub 500ms response time is certainly borderline reasonable for UI with button click actions.

Mostly, I long for the day we don’t have to play the JavaScript framework game to push a round peg into the square whole that is the HTML web.

Oh, the English language! It lacks a bit of polish, but maybe all languages do, even Polish.

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