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You can incrementally add client side only UI elements as you need - and if you want to use something more complex there are escape hatches which let you use your frontend framewor…

When it comes to refactoring, the fact that Elixir is compiled helps a lot - there are a set of mistakes you make during a refactor which the compiler will just catch for you.

This is really impressive. If I were tasked with building an app with a similar feature set in another language or runtime Id have to bring in a whole set of technologies and infra…

Tailwind feels like the correct abstraction on-top-of css which works for 90% of use-cases. I struggled with css for many years but Tailwind has actually helped me improve my css -…

Phoenix has a much smaller footprint than Django. I would put Phoenix closer to Flask in terms of how much work the framework does for you. Phoenix has lots of generators which mak…

Great article. It sounds like the same journey I’ve been through - initially enjoying Django and it’s ORM, then starting to wrestle with the fact that the data layer is hidden from…

I came to Elixir from another untyped language (python) but I've never had any issues. Elixir code often relies heavily on pattern matching return values (ok/error tuples or Struct…

Having done python for many years and coming to Elixir the things that I find Elixir does really well are: - mix and the general tooling (package management, testing, deployment) -…