[erinan]

Whether it's a good idea or not really depends on your app, what you're trying to do, and who your users are.

Now if you want to avoid round trips to the server for interactions such as opening a modal, you can!

There are at least two ways to handle this - Javascript hooks that let you attach JS to your DOM, or the light AlpineJS framework. The latter is a perfect fit for Liveview and it's part of the unofficial go-to stack name PETAL - Phoenix Elixir Tailwind AlpineJS Liveview.