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Building Local-First apps for Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS and Android using Phoenix LiveView & Elixir!

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1.8KGitHub stars
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Building Local-First apps for Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS and Android using Phoenix LiveView & Elixir!

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 12:54:37 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2021-05-21 20:08:24 UTC to 2025-05-31 15:06:21 UTC.

02468102021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 1 submissions, 8 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC918
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Exciting work is happening in all of these areas... > desktop Elixir Desktop: https://github.com/elixir-desktop/desktop > mobile development LiveView Native: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnDGh_Jmw-s > front end web LiveView? > command line tools Mix.Install: https://thinkingelixir.com/elixir-1-12-and-your-first-mix-in... How about numerical computing / machine learning: https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx/tree/main/nx Embedded: "yes there's Nerves". Exactly?
In Joy of Elixir (2020)
It is not on the phone, no. I'm sure eventually you could run it on the phone like Elixir Desktop[1], but that isn't what it is at the moment. The phone connects to the server via a websocket and the SwiftUI "DOM" is pushed to the client just like HTML would be. In fact, I already built a hybrid Web & Native demo[2] that demonstrates that it's just bog-standard LiveView. [1] https://github.com/elixir-desktop/desktop [2] https://natetodd.com/building-for-web-and-native-with-livevi...
In Elixir – Phoenix LiveView Native
I love Rubular and use it often. The "Regex Quick Reference" block is so incredibly useful too when you don't completely remember that one thing. However it is closed source, and it sends your info to the server for processing. This is of course not (likely) nefarious, but it does give me a little pause, and means that you should never use it if the data you are putting into it is sensitive!. For example, don't test your API key parsing regex on it with real/active keys! Also for corporate dev you are (probably) violating company policy by using it. Rubulex[1] is a neat open source clone that I use a lot. The only downside is I have to start it locally. One of these days I'll stand up a permanent instance, though I don't want to do that without auditing the code and I simply haven't had time to do that. If anyone has done so I'd lo
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ve to hear about it. Scriptular[2] is an open source clone that uses javascript: Side note: If anyone knows of or wants to build an Elixir regex tool in Phoenix/LiveView, I'd be willing to collaborate a bit and willing to host/maintain (and I'll pay for the VM/domain). I've already got some Phoenix apps running in prod so if you get it to work with `mix phx.server` I can take it from there (I know that operationalizing and devops isn't what usually interests most people). A non LiveView version would be cool too, but it seems like such a cool project to build with LiveView to be super responsive and show off what you can do (and also learn Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView with a simple app). Would be really neat to release an elixir-desktop[3] version too! My email is in my profile if you are interested. [1]: https://github.com/ofeldt/rubulex [2]: https://github.com/jonmagic/scriptular [3]: https://github.com/elixir-desktop/desktop
In RegExr: Learn, Build and Test Regex

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