Thinking Elixir Podcast
241: A LiveView Debugger and Gigalixir
Feb 18, 2025
Tim Knight, CTO of Gigalixir, shares his insights on the evolution of deployment for Elixir applications. He discusses the new LiveDebugger tool, enhancing debugging for Phoenix LiveView apps. Tim also dives into Gigalixir's features, focusing on easy application management and scalability. He emphasizes the significance of comprehensive cloud services and the unique customer support philosophy aimed at Elixir developers. The conversation covers exciting new tools and strategies that make the Elixir development experience more robust and user-friendly.
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Quick takeaways
- The LiveDebugger tool enhances debugging for Phoenix LiveView applications by providing a browser-based interface to track events and state transitions.
- Artifix enables developers to create private Hex registries on S3 and CloudFront, facilitating secure management of dependencies for organizations with strict security needs.
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Introduction of LiveDebugger Tool
A new debugging tool called LiveDebugger has been released to enhance the experience of working with Phoenix LiveView applications. This tool allows developers to track events, state transitions, and the performance of sockets through a browser-based interface, providing real-time insights into LiveView components. For example, developers can monitor the component tree and active socket IDs, facilitating better debugging of complex LiveView states. Despite being in its early release stage, LiveDebugger shows promising features that could make it an essential tool for many developers in the future.
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