Hi All. I’ve started to look at Surface and it looks really good. I have a fairly complex LiveView app at the moment and I was considering tranitioning to Surface. I wondered if anyone with some experience could answer a couple of questions: Are there any additional performance challenges with us…

Also the reason I paused. I would rather move to the canonical solution. My understanding is that a Phoenix.Component can be used in both LiveView and eex templates although I can’t seem to recall where I picked this up.

[image] tejpochiraju: My understanding is that a Phoenix.Component can be used in both LiveView and eex templates although I can’t seem to recall where I picked this up. Correct! And Surface will likely just use Phoenix.Component too, so everything should be using the same abstractions.

Yes. It will use Phoenix.Component for sure. Using the same abstractions means you’ll be able to write components using Surface or HEEx and use them in any LV project. There are still some features we need to bring to LV itself to make that become a reality but we’re already working on it and we hop…

First of all thanks for Surface - it massively eased my path into LiveView because of the familiarity of components & Bulma. Given Phoenix.Component, what would you say will become Surface’s USP? Why would one choose it over the built-ins? (Curious, not rude!)

Surface is built upon LiveView, so it is not Surface vs LiveView, but really Surface vs leex. The biggest benefit to me is that Surface is more curated; it nudges you onto the right track without taking away functionality. leex is very powerful, but there are too many ways to shoot yourself in the f…

In addition to what @derek-zhou said, Surface comes with a lot of features that Phoenix Live View does not support (yet?). Here is a non-exhaustive list of these features: Declarative properties with prop, slot, data Multiple slots that are placeholders declared by a component that you can fill up…

Thanks for the exhaustive answer! :if and :for definitely made it much nicer to build. Event handlers too. Yet to try some of the patterns. Did find forms a bit easier to build in Surface than pure LiveView. Mainly because I haven’t fully wrapped my head around schemaless changesets. I will join …

Hi, I started migrating to surface last weekend. I haven’t migrated everything yet but it’s no problem including LV components in surface components. It was a little rocky at first figuring out how to do a few things like dynamic attributes and attributes with no value but there are several closed i…

I would love to se some projects which used Surface. At the point where I tried to use it I found it problematic that I was having trouble adding it to .leex files. Seeing @cmo answer, I would be interested to see the proper syntax!