Electric Clojure Differential Dataflow for UI (KEYNOTE)

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Electric Clojure claims fullstack UI code compiles to a shared DAG that injects websocket streaming diffs so collections are a stream of change sets not whole payloads the DOM layer is ~500 lines and the canonical demo is a 12 line fullstack example that marks server vs client and runs without React or a virtual DOM the system streams robot telemetry at 20 Hz with replay at 40x and uses offloadable cancelable queries and diff squash to keep the UI responsive.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:55Electric Clojure
3. 3:58Reactivity and DOM rendering
4. 6:49Concurrency and DAG
5. 8:14Scalability problems
6. 8:35File system traversal demo
7. 11:21Process supervision
8. 13:30Functional effects and purity
9. 14:13Query cancellation
10. 17:04Lambda transparency
11. 19:07TodoMVC as a function
12. 21:41Dependency injection
13. 21:58Motivating differential dataflow
14. 22:21Diffing collections
15. 24:49Dataflow for large datasets
16. 25:30Back pressure
17. 26:53Virtual scroll
18. 28:43Chat app reconciliation
19. 29:44Optimistic updates
20. 31:09Conclusion

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