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0 pointsnickjj4y ago0 comments

> Maybe I'm missing something, but doesn't this have precisely the same latency characteristics as live view?

There's an open GitHub issue on LV which mentions when using live_redirect you're paying a very large penalty in page load speeds due to extra latency being introduced by LV: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/issues...

Before this issue existed my non-scientific impression was the same. There was something that felt off when using sites that primarily used LV for navigation and loading content. It always felt like I was clicking, waiting a noticeable amount of time and then the content would appear -- even with a decent ping time (< 100ms).

I never experienced that type of delay when using Turbolinks and now Hotwire Turbo with comparable ping times to a server.

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DiggyJohnson4y ago

Interesting analysis. Do you have any quick examples of site's that use LV? I'm curious.

nickjjOP4y ago

Not at the moment, but I remember someone posting an example LV page on Twitter a few months ago for pagination and I distinctly remember how delayed the page felt and I pinged 80ms to the server. Basically I've seen scattered examples when they were posted over the years on various social sites.

I'm having a hard time finding a current example demo LV app that demonstrates page transitions using LV or to be honest any sites heavily using LV in general.

But it should be reproduceable in a demo app that uses live_redirect to transition between pages. The issue has repeatable steps and it's been confirmed as a bug by the maintainers of LV, except it looks like it's going to be tricky to solve it.

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