August 05, 2025

264: Hot Reload In Dev and QA Bottlenecks

40 minutes

News includes Phoenix v1.8 shipping with an AGENTS markdown file for new apps to enhance coding agent experiences, Popcorn bringing Elixir to the browser through WebAssembly with no installation required, LiveVue v0.6.0 with 90% payload size reduction through JSON Patch operations, an awesome LiveView development tip for hot-reloading code changes while preserving LiveView state, MDEx v0.8 adding decorators support for enhanced code block styling, Hologram v0.5.0 delivering major performance improvements with milliseconds to microseconds execution times, ElixirConf US 2025 tickets available with our discount code, and a discussion about how AI-generated code is creating new bottlenecks in QA and code review processes, and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/264

Elixir Community News

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https://x.com/josevalim/status/1948826989357367698 – José Valim announces Phoenix v1.8 will ship with an AGENTS markdown file for new apps, ensuring teams using coding agents have an outstanding experience out of the box

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/commit/50ffaa5aa1c60503f01cd2107edd43f22435f9e7 – Phoenix commit adding the AGENTS.md file by Chris McCord

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/main/installer/templates/phx_single/AGENTS.md – The actual AGENTS.md template file in Phoenix

https://hex.pm/packages/usage_rules – Related package for usage rules

https://bsky.app/profile/membrane-swmansion.bsky.social/post/3luptf3p76s24 – Announcement post about Popcorn - Elixir in your browser via WebAssembly

https://popcorn.swmansion.com/ – Popcorn - run Elixir locally in your browser with no install required

https://popcorn.swmansion.com/demos/eval – Interactive IEx shell demo running in the browser

https://github.com/software-mansion/popcorn/ – GitHub project for Popcorn

https://blog.swmansion.com/popcorn-bringing-elixir-to-the-browser-8993a58a00be – Blog post explaining how Popcorn works and its limitations

https://github.com/atomvm/AtomVM – AtomVM - Tiny Erlang VM that powers Popcorn

https://atomvm.org/ – AtomVM website with details about the lightweight BEAM implementation

https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/floss-weekly-episode-838-atomvm-and-the-full-stack-elixir-developer/ – Podcast appearance by AtomVM team

https://x.com/jskalc/status/1947674420459254203 – LiveVue v0.6.0 release announcement

https://github.com/Valian/live_vue – LiveVue project - end-to-end reactivity for Phoenix LiveView and Vue

https://x.com/jskalc/status/1950110941137285567 – Jakob explains new End to End testing setup for LiveVue

https://x.com/jskalc/status/1949882608424538420 – Awesome LiveView development tip for hot-reloading while keeping state

https://x.com/jskalc/status/1788308446007132509 – Original tip post about LiveView hot reloading

https://gist.github.com/chrismccord/2c26c876bb4430c1bdcd313b64e4c2c5 – Chris McCord's Gist showing how to implement LiveView hot reload with state preservation

https://x.com/leandrocesquini/status/1949827775541502037 – MDEx v0.8 release announcement

https://github.com/leandrocp/mdex – MDEx project - Markdown processor for Elixir

https://hexdocs.pm/mdex/0.8.0/MDEx.html#module-code-block-decorators – Documentation for MDEx decorators feature

https://bsky.app/profile/bartblast.com/post/3lutbbibma22a – Hologram v0.5.0 announcement

https://hologram.page/blog/hologram-v0-5-0-released – Hologram v0.5.0 release blog post

https://github.com/bartblast/hologram – Hologram project - components defined in Elixir that become JS in the browser

https://elixirconf.com/ – ElixirConf US 2025 website

https://ti.to/elixirconf/2025/discount/ThinkingElixir – ElixirConf ticket discount link with ThinkingElixir code for 10% off

https://x.com/ThatArrowsmith/status/1948490317277143438 – George Arrowsmith's tweet about QA becoming a bottleneck with AI-generated code

https://x.com/mikehostetler/status/1948491086130819331 – Mike Hostetler's response about teams struggling with code review and QA of AI-generated code

https://x.com/josevalim/status/1948634632716488809 – José Valim's insight on the need for new software verification practices with AI code generation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM2IZLR0LXc – Mark's first AI demo video: I Built an AI Tool That Saves Me Hours Every Week (Demo)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piS1J4ru1fE – Mark's second AI demo video: How to Build AI Systems That Actually Run Your Business (Not Just Chat)

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