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Using Select2 with Phoenix LiveView

Using Select2 with Phoenix LiveView

​LiveView doesn’t support JavaScript interop at the moment (but it’s a planned feature), so in this article we see how to come up with a workaround to make LiveView playing together with a JavaScript library like Select2.

We see how to take advantage of ​phx:update​ events, which LiveView dispatches every time it updates the DOM. Then, we see how to send events to the server using ​liveSocket.