Building Web UIs

Crow's web story is the LiveView model: your UI logic lives on the server, in Crow; the browser renders HTML and streams events back over a WebSocket; state changes re-render automatically. No JavaScript build step, no client framework, no API layer between your data and your page — the dashboard in chapter 13 is one file.

Three pieces: view blocks describe the page, reactive state makes it live, components make it composable. Then two things every real app needs — slow work that doesn't freeze the page, and charts and styling that look right without writing CSS.