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What is Live View not good at?



It's not suitable for using the client's computer to mine crypto currencies, doing graphics processing on the client, doing numerical processing on the client or doing anything purely on the client without server interaction.

For things where you generally need a trip to the server anyway, like validations, it's great.


Yup, exactly. If you’re mostly building a client application (or a p2p client-server application!) but it happens to live on the web platform, PLV does not seem like a great fit...at least not this year. Honestly BEAM seems great it ought to be great for that generally!

Maybe if you ran the server portion of PLV in the browser...but then you’re just back at React anyway I suppose.


You wouldn't use it for an offline app, but that's not what it's being marketed towards.




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