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Published 21 Feb - 2020 · Tutorial

Create a Reusable Calendar in Phoenix LiveView

Updated for Phoenix 1.7. In this tutorial I am creating a simple calendar in Phoenix LiveView. The calendar should be able to switch month,…

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Published 15 Feb - 2020 · Tutorial

Create ghost loading cards in Phoenix LiveView

Unless you already didn't know, when a LieView component is mounted on a page, it runs the mount/2 function twice. One when the page is rend…

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Published 14 Feb - 2020 · Tutorial

Improving LiveView UX with Phoenix Channels - Tagging part 3

In the previous tutorial I set up the tagging interface. It had however a small issue. If I added a tag, it didnt really refocus on the inpu…

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Published 13 Feb - 2020 · Tutorial

Tagging interface with Phoenix LiveView and Tailwind - Tagging part 2

In the previous tutorial, I set up the the backend for being able to add tags to products. I have also written a tutorial about adding a Liv…

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Published 11 Feb - 2020 · Tutorial

Add Tags with Ecto has_many, through in Phoenix - Tagging part 1

I want to add tags to products. And as usual there are a situation where a product can have many tags and a tag can belong to many products.…

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Published 10 Feb - 2020 · Tutorial

Add and use a JSONB field in Phoenix and Ecto

PostgreSQL has native support for objects stored as JSON as actually binary JSON (or JSONB). With JSONB format, you can add index do the col…

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Published 05 Feb - 2020 · Tutorial

Nested model forms with Phoenix LiveView

I my last article, I set up a relationship between products and variants. But what I didn't go through was to setup a form where you can man…

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Published 03 Feb - 2020 · Tutorial

Setup a has_many / belongs_to in Phoenix

Something I do in EVERY project is to setup some sort of relation between resources. And even though Phoenix comes with generators for migra…

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Published 01 Feb - 2020 · Tutorial

Create a Bootstrap Like Modal with Tailwind and Alpine.js

In certain scenarios, it doesnt really make sense to use LiveView. That can be toggling dropdowns, tabs, accordions and opening modals. Ther…

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Published 29 Jan - 2020 · Tutorial

Send events from JS to a LiveView component

Let say you app uses a javascript library that needs to interact with your app. For example a LiveView component. That is possible with the…

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