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Enhancing UX for Collaborative Tools with Phoenix and React

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Enhancing UX for Collaborative Tools with Phoenix and React

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Tyler Young, from Felt, spoke about their journey in creating a seamless and collaborative editing tool, often compared to 'Figma for maps'. They leveraged Phoenix Channels to allow real-time interaction among users. Tyler emphasized that while Phoenix Channels ensure low-latency communication, additional features and optimizations are necessary to ensure a truly delightful user experience. Key areas covered in this discussion included minimizing the time to first render by embedding initial state in HTML, employing optimistic client-side changes to simulate zero-latency editing, reducing latency in broadcasting changes, ensuring no data loss occurs when clients go offline, and minimizing blocking work within the channel process to avoid unresponsiveness. Tyler Young advocated for strategic use of processes to avoid channel blocking, highlighted methods to handle lost internet connectivity, and shed light on techniques to make the application resilient to lost messages. The talk also proposed future enhancements such as full offline editing and global distribution to reduce latency. This conference provided valuable insights into improving user experience through technical excellence in collaborative web application development.

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