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He just glosses over the "you can use a websocket API", which would solve most of the issues he's describing. There are a ton of websocket libraries that are easy to use. Do all the auth and session establishment once, and then communicate over websocket if you hate sending cookies and session data back and forth.

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No, you missed the point. Liveview works because there’s a stateful Elixir process on the backend for each open ws connection. This model doesn’t work in nearly any other backend option in any other language. If he glossed over the web socket option you’re glossing over the uselessness of the ws if the backend has the memory of a goldfish.

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