The Silicon valley hive-mind has infected us all. We live in a world of over-engineered solutions, in hedonic pursuit of the next hot thing. Phoenix LiveView….the next hot thing….promises simplicity: no Javascript, real-time experiences….in a simpler programming model? It’s one thing to read it on Hacker News. It’s another thing to make a toy project. After shipping LiveView code for roughly a year…..I can confirm that the bold promises that the framework makes are true!