Exploring Orb: Generating Interactive UI Components with Elixir and WebAssembly

In this talk, Patrick Smith presents a new approach to generating interactive UI components using Orb and Elixir. This method allows developers to write WebAssembly directly in Elixir, providing a bridge to create components that function both server-side in Elixir and in the browser through Web Components or LiveView. The talk also highlights the use of large language models (LLMs) in Livebook to assist in generating these components while ensuring their validity and accessibility through the constraints of WebAssembly sandboxing and ARIA. This addresses the common issues of AI generating unreliable components by implementing strict testing conditions.