Why Your Livewire Dashboard Jumps (And How to Fix It) - Laravel In Practice EP18
Last updated on by Harris Raftopoulos
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Your real-time dashboard works. New orders come in, the data updates. But every time Livewire re-renders, the entire page jumps back to the top. Your users lose their place, animations break, and the whole experience feels janky.
What if your dashboard could update in real-time without touching the DOM at all?
In this episode of Laravel In Practice, I show you how to fix page jumps in your Livewire dashboard using a combination of Livewire's skip render method and Alpine.js. You'll learn how to intercept real-time events before Livewire re-renders, update your stats and order table directly through Alpine, and add smooth animations for incoming orders.
The trick is letting Alpine.js handle the UI updates while Livewire stays out of the way. Instead of a full component re-render every time an order arrives, we use skipRender to keep the page stable and push the new data straight into Alpine's reactive state. The result is a dashboard that feels native with no flicker, no jumps, just smooth updates.
This builds directly on the real-time foundation from Episode 17, where we added Reverb and Echo. That episode got the data flowing live. This one makes the experience actually feel good to use.
