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Phoenix 1.3.0 Released

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Re: Phoenix 1.3.0 Released

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Post by srjilarious »

Really excited to see this out. I've been learning Elixir and Phoenix with the 1.3rc and have really been enjoying it!

I'm a fan of Contexts myself as that is typically how I architect apps on mobile as well. I like having everything separated more explicitly and testable individually and Contexts seem to promote that in a really nice way.

Re: Phoenix 1.3.0 Released

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Post by ch4s3 »

out_of_protocol wrote: post #2

Quote interesting release, many useful features. `action_fallback` looks really nice. Contexts ... not so much imo

Contexts are in practice pretty nice, and you don't have to use them. I've found that in my own work with 1.3.rc.*, the contexts describe an area of the system and help enforce some separation of concerns. That said, you're free to build everything in one context.

Re: Phoenix 1.3.0 Released

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Post by the_angry_angel »

out_of_protocol wrote: post #2

Quote interesting release, many useful features. `action_fallback` looks really nice. Contexts ... not so much imo

> Contexts ... not so much imo

I'll prefix my comment by saying I'm someone who is more on the sysadmin side of the scale of things. My code isn't pretty, but it generally works well enough to get the job done. I'm learning (probably the most important thing, I guess).

Contexts are one of things that I felt the same about. Until I tried really using them, rather than stressing over whether or not I was using them properly.

I made the mistake of trying to think of them as microservices, which bogged me down and for my purposes was complete overkill. I've now reached a kind of happy medium, which I've realised that I really should have already been using. I've kinda realised I suck at api design. And for that I'm very thankful to the phoenix team, because it feels like I'm learning.

Re: Phoenix 1.3.0 Released

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Post by fareesh »

I'm spending all my free time with Phoenix. I come from a Rails, Laravel, Django and a bit of .NET Core background. So far I am extremely impressed. I'm surprised it has not been adopted by that many folks in production.

Re: Phoenix 1.3.0 Released

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Post by aaron-lebo »

fareesh wrote: post #8

I'm spending all my free time with Phoenix. I come from a Rails, Laravel, Django and a bit of .NET Core background. So far I am extremely impressed. I'm surprised it has not been adopted by that many folks in production.

Shhh, the first rule of Phoenix Club is that you don't tell everyone that it is the best web stack out there.

Re: Phoenix 1.3.0 Released

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Post by dopeboy »

fareesh wrote: post #8

I'm spending all my free time with Phoenix. I come from a Rails, Laravel, Django and a bit of .NET Core background. So far I am extremely impressed. I'm surprised it has not been adopted by that many folks in production.

I'm a django guy. I have no experience with functional programming.

What would a transition to phoenix + elixir look like for me?

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