surface-ui/surface

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Surface is a server-side rendering component library for the Phoenix web framework, built on top of Phoenix LiveView. It offers an HTML-centric templating language with components as modules, declarative properties, slots, contexts, and compile-time checking, enabling rich interactive UIs with minimal custom JavaScript.

Use cases

• build server-rendered interactive UIs in a Phoenix LiveView app
• write Phoenix templates with an HTML-centric component syntax
• create reusable Elixir components with props, slots, and contexts
• get compile-time checking of template structure and component properties
• reduce the amount of custom JavaScript in a Phoenix web app
• add a component library to an existing Phoenix project

When to choose

• you are building a Phoenix LiveView application and want a more ergonomic, HTML-centric component API
• you want compile-time validation of templates, props, slots, and events
• you prefer server-side rendering with minimal custom JavaScript
• you want components that can be stateless, stateful, renderless, or compile-time

When to avoid

• your project is not built on Elixir/Phoenix
• you need a heavy client-side SPA with complex in-browser state
• you are happy with plain HEEx/LiveView templates and don't want an extra templating layer
• you need a framework that runs rendering in the browser rather than on the server

Facets

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ssr ui-components templating frontend-framework web-development frontend elixir phoenix-liveview phoenix component-library html-templating compile-time-checking slots minimal-javascript server-rendered-ui web-server

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