HEEx
HEEx is not HTML
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Let me tell you a secret. Until now I kept calling the result of the render/1
function a HTML. The story isn't quite like that! sigil_H
actually returns a data structure called HEEx. This structure is optimized to know when something has been modified based on its assigns and send the minimum amount of data from the server to the client.
How to pronounce HEEx?
The creator's official pronunciation is "hiccs" as can be seen
in this video which introduces the structure.
In the next classes we will learn a little bit more about HEEx's super powers. In fact, you've already learned at least one: assigns
are part of HEEx's range of features.
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