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tomyfalgui

Has anyone built their side project with Phoenix (Elixir)?

I want to know if anyone has built their side project with Phoenix. If so, what made you choose to use Phoenix and what parts do you struggle/battle with (auth,apis, payments,etc.)?

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Emanuel Quimper

I've almost finish a product last year using Elixir/Phoenix. I did stop cause of motivation but here what I can say about it.

Pros

  • If you like Rails/Django/Laravel MVC app style you will love it
  • So fast
  • Really clean syntax

Cons

  • Feel like I need to write lot of stuff due to missing package vs what I do in laravel where everything exist
  • Deployment was hard, but now is better from what I see
  • Missing tutorial. I did create one on my Youtube Channel cause didnt find other so. But now you have Alchemist Camp who is really good
  • Lot of package I did want to use like ex_admin was not maintained
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tomyfalgui Author

Thank you for your input ! Specifically, what essential packages did you miss having which are present in other frameworks?

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Emanuel Quimper

@tomyfalgui In laravel I use Cashier for Payment. In elixir you don't have a package complete like that. After this deployment in laravel with Vapor or Forge is so simple. I like the fact the Creator of the framework build those thing. You know this is really setup for that. Admin panel was a big … Yes I can create one with generator but … In laravel I use Nova yes it's 99$ but I win how many hours of dev ?

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