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Phoenix 1.0

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Re: Phoenix 1.0

#11

Does phoenix require javascript, or just this announcement page? I see a big block of text mixed with json... Not so good for noscript users and search engines that don't load JS.

Just the announcement page.

The Phoenix website is hosted on https://readme.io/, it seems that it uses client side rendering for posts.

Re: Phoenix 1.0

#12

Does phoenix require javascript, or just this announcement page? I see a big block of text mixed with json... Not so good for noscript users and search engines that don't load JS.

Phoenix is built to power realtime web applications. Realtime web applications require javascript.

Edit: Not that you can't use Phoenix without realtime capabilities, but a lot of the good stuff in Phoenix is around Channels.

Re: Phoenix 1.0

#13

Ah, this is great. Hopefully now there won't be updates that alter syntax and functionality with quite the same frequency! (check the 'Upgrading from...' posts) I'm pretty excited about Elixir and Phoenix. Building on Erlang's OTP should mean scaling can be fairly transparent.

I have been working with Phoenix for about a year. Upgrading hasn't been bad. The most inconvenient thing was when Ecto changed some APIs to return tuples, and changing Ecto.Repo.update/2 to be a no-op with no changes. It really isn't that bad with a good test suite though. :)

Re: Phoenix 1.0

#14

Ah, this is great. Hopefully now there won't be updates that alter syntax and functionality with quite the same frequency! (check the 'Upgrading from...' posts) I'm pretty excited about Elixir and Phoenix. Building on Erlang's OTP should mean scaling can be fairly transparent.

Rest assured that's the point of the 1.0 release. Those upgrading guides are what it took to get here, but our APIs are all now stable. Enjoy!

Just in time for your workshop. :)

Re: Phoenix 1.0

#15
I've been getting into serious production-ready web development for some time now and Rails has been the tool that kicked things off for me. However Phoenix and Volt are alternatives that have been on my radar recently and really caught my interest. Glad to see it reaching this milestone. Congratulations!

Re: Phoenix 1.0

#16
I've been getting into serious production-ready web development for some time now and Rails has been the tool that kicked things off for me. However Phoenix and Volt are alternatives that have been on my radar recently and really caught my interest. Glad to see it reaching this milestone. Congratulations!

Re: Phoenix 1.0

#19
Phoenix and Elixir are really great tools. I spent the summer building a bunch of interactive components for an EdX MOOC (https://imgur.com/a/rAXVz), and got to try out a lot of Phoenix capabilities (channels/websocket support is great!), but also using underlying Elixir/Erlang libraries for task-queues, email sending and receiving, etc. Super stable, never able to get our server above a few percent of CPU :)
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