I’ve just started reading this but wanted to quickly say that the preface and opening chapter (everything up to the beginning of ‘Part 1’) is not only one of the best openings of any book I’ve read, but also does one of the best jobs to sell the idea of a piece of technology - ever!!

I was going to suggest PragProg consider making it a free download - because I reckon it will do a phenomenal job of helping drive adoption of Elixir and Phoenix …which in turn will mean significantly more potential customers/readers - so a win win for everyone but guess what? It’s already available as a free download!! (Get the preface here and the introductory chapter here.)

Well done Chris, José, Bruce, Jacquelyn, PragProg and anyone else who made that chapter what it is whenever anyone now asks “Why Elixir?” I’ll definitely be including this resource and I can’t wait to read to the rest of the book!

LiveView definitely won’t make it into the book given we are shipping the final three chapters and sending it off to production hopefully before end of year, which will be prior to a LiveView 1.0 for sure. Fortunately though, we have a great doc system with elixir and hexdocs so there will be plenty of docs/guides as we get underway.

Targeting EOY for the next edition release

Hi @chrismccord would you please add a chapter on Phoenix LiveView to the book Programming Phoenix 1.4?
If you make it the last chapter and convert all the JavaScript used in Rumbl into the Phoenix LiveView(s), that will make much sense.
Rumbl will already be completed, so if someone don’t wanna use LiveView, s/he will already be done, but if someone want to use LiveView s/he will read the last chapter too.
Or you can also release a separate booklet on Phoenix LiveView, doing the same (rewriting all the JavaScript used in Rumbl, to LiveView)

I agree that having a chapter on LiveView would be spectacular

I think LiveView is going to be one of Phoenix’s killer features, and it being covered in the de-facto Phoenix book would be awesome (even if to begin with it is just enough to get people productive with it).