Hologram works. Elixir runs in the browser
This article details the progress of the Hologram framework, which enables Elixir code to run in the browser. It highlights community-driven development, new feature releases, and the goal of achieving local-first application capabilities.
Why it matters
It represents a significant shift in the Elixir ecosystem, potentially bridging the gap between server-side logic and client-side interactivity.
New to Hologram? My ElixirConf EU 2025 talk is the introduction to what it is and why it exists.
What comes next is bigger than any of it. Local-first : applications that keep working offline and sync automatically when the connection returns, built into the framework instead of assembled by hand from three libraries and a lot of hope. No full-stack framework in any language ecosystem ships this. Hologram is close enough to be the first.
Whether that gets built comes down to the next few months, and to whether companies decide to put weight behind it. I'd rather say that plainly now than have it show up later as a project that quietly slowed down.
Here's where things stand, and how you or the company you work for can help.
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