🔗 Background jobs with Oban, part 1: stop blocking your LiveView

A slow HTTP fetch can freeze your LiveView, impacting user experience. This article illustrates how to offload this slow job using Oban, a job processing library for Elixir. The piece guides readers through integrating Oban into a Phoenix application by setting up a jobs table, configuring queues, and writing a worker to handle tasks in the background. By transitioning slow processes out of the LiveView event handler, the app becomes more responsive, allowing users to interact without delays when processing links. The author provides a thorough code walkthrough, ensuring that developers can follow along with their own implementations. This approach optimizes performance and enhances user satisfaction by minimizing wait times during web page fetching.