Yes, it did sound like Chris McCord liked the approaches being explored by Surface and they might get incorporated into LiveView. That’s super cool!
I have used Surface on a significant project. At the time, surface was very new. It was even pre-release. So after some time (a month or so), I switched it out for regular LiveView and components. Mainly the issues I had were around dependency conflicts. Surface would require master branch of LiveView and that would break things on our production app as it wasn’t fully ready.
I like Surface, but personally I don’t have a need for it at this time. A lot of my “small, granular components” are simple helper functions that render an ~E block with a static component. I use TailwindCSS for styling so that’s handled there too. There aren’t that many actual “live” components, but when there are, that API works well enough.
