Chris Nelson

Co-Founder and Principal Engineer

Chris Nelson is a Co-Founder of Launch Scout. He created the company’s apprenticeship program, mentors new developers, and sets technology direction. He loves sharing what he’s learned from over 25 years of developing software across a wide range of industries. Chris has given workshops across the country and spoken at conferences including ElixirConf, RailsConf, RubyConf, JavaOne, CodeMash and Scottish Ruby Conf.

Talk:
LiveView and Web Components

Level: Introductory and overview

LiveView gives us immense productivity as Elixir developers building web applications. What do we do when we need to go past what LiveView gives us? In this session, we’ll explore why using Web Components can be the perfect way to extend LiveView with custom or existing javascript in a way that still feels like LiveView. We’ll see how LiveElements lets us turn our web components into LiveView functional components. We’ll work through examples of using existing web components, building our own from scratch, and using web components to “wrap” existing javascript libraries.

OBJECTIVES:

  • To give Elixir/LiveView developers a great option for extending LiveView with custom javascript in an ergonomic way.

AUDIENCE:

  • Elixir/LiveView developers