TDD, Phoenix, LiveView,

& You

by Jake Prem

Who am I?

• Software Engineer at TaxJar
• Previously at SmartColumbus OS
• Other stuff

Why this talk?

• LiveView is "the new hotness"
• Evaluating testing strategies
• TDD can be helpful
• Understanding the Phoenix ecosystem

What is TDD?

• Basically write tests before code
• Better designed code
• Validates assumptions
• Makes it easier to jump into unfamiliar code

What is Phoenix?

• HTTP Requests and sockets
• HTML generation utilities
• Ecto?

Phoenix LiveView

• Pages update in "realtime"
• Lower friction than SPA
• Write idiomatic Elixir code
• Similar to GenServer
• Leverages sockets and javascript under the hood

Have you ever tried testing Phoenix?