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Beau Heubach

Pixel Pushing User Advocate

Beau is a UX designer, front-end developer, and father of six with 15 years of experience working to solve complex usability problems and learning how to measure user experience. He loves working at Gaslight, a custom agile shop, where he leads projects from user research through to product delivery.

Past Activities

Zack Kayser / Beau Heubach
Code BEAM SF 2020
06 Mar 2020
13.40 - 14.25

GeoRacer: Building a real-time multiplayer mobile game in Elixir in 6 weeks

Phoenix Phrenzy was an app building competition to show off a brand-new feature in the Phoenix web framework called LiveView. LiveView allows developers to build dynamic, real-time web interfaces using only Elixir. Our team wanted to push the boundaries of LiveView, so we built a geo-location based racing game we called GeoRacer and were delighted when our app won. In this session, we'll share the story of building GeoRacer and show how LiveView can give you web app building super powers.

THIS TALK IN THREE WORDS

Elixir

LiveView

Real-Time

OBJECTIVES

  • Show how we leverage Phoenix and LiveView to build a rich native app experience
  • Demonstrate the power and performance LiveView in building real-time interactions
  • Explore what we learn from building Geo Racer and how we hope to use LiveView in the future

TARGET AUDIENCE

Elixir/Erlang developers wanting to build web or mobile apps without needing a JS framework