Phoenix LiveView is a powerful framework built on Elixir, offering an innovative approach to building real-time web interfaces without the need for extensive Javascript. However, integrating with existing client-side libraries, such as those for graphing, visualization, or rendering, can sometimes be challenging. In this article, we explore how to integrate Phoenix LiveView with Javascript libraries that render directly to the DOM. We will discuss hooks in LiveView, which allow us to run Javascript on certain lifecycle elements, and enable streams of events (via push_event in LiveView and pushEvent in Javascript) for bi-directional real-time communication between client and server.

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