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Phoenix 1.6, RC0 released

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Re: Phoenix 1.6, RC0 released

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Post by CrownSoft »

chrismccord wrote: post #2

Phoenix creator here – I'm happy to answer any questions about elixir, phoenix, or this release!

When learning elixir and phoenix, it is hard to find updated tutorials. Whenever I try an youtube tutorial, there is always an error. Can you share some updated links/books for a beginner?

Re: Phoenix 1.6, RC0 released

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Post by Vitamin_Sushi »

CrownSoft wrote: post #3
chrismccord wrote: post #2

Phoenix creator here – I'm happy to answer any questions about elixir, phoenix, or this release!

When learning elixir and phoenix, it is hard to find updated tutorials. Whenever I try an youtube tutorial, there is always an error. Can you share some updated links/books for a beginner?

Not op, but for me the official elixir site's guide help a lot. I actually read that side by side with Sasa Juric's Elixir in Action and felt like I got a pretty good understanding of elixir. For Phoenix, I've just been using the guide in phoenix's hexdocs and reading some random blogs about anything specific.

Re: Phoenix 1.6, RC0 released

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Post by chrismccord »

Vitamin_Sushi wrote: post #4
CrownSoft wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When learning elixir and phoenix, it is hard to find updated tutorials. Whenever I try an youtube tutorial, there is always an error. Can you share some updated links/books for a beginner?

Not op, but for me the official elixir site's guide help a lot. I actually read that side by side with Sasa Juric's Elixir in Action and felt like I got a pretty good understanding of elixir. For Phoenix, I've just been using the guide in phoenix's hexdocs and reading some random blogs about anything specific.

These are great suggestions. The getting started guides on Elixir and Phoenix get you moving with the basics. Beyond that, Programming Elixir, Elixir in Action, and Programming Phoenix are great book options.

Re: Phoenix 1.6, RC0 released

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Post by scns »

CrownSoft wrote: post #3
chrismccord wrote: post #2

Phoenix creator here – I'm happy to answer any questions about elixir, phoenix, or this release!

When learning elixir and phoenix, it is hard to find updated tutorials. Whenever I try an youtube tutorial, there is always an error. Can you share some updated links/books for a beginner?

I bookmarked this one from the last discussion of Phoenix on HN: https://sergiotapia.com/phoenix-160-liveview-esbuild-tailwin...

Re: Phoenix 1.6, RC0 released

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Post by sergiotapia »

I like how Phoenix had the stones to replace webpack after all the additional support requests it was bringing in. I've been using esbuild with 1.6.0-dev and it is a lot more ergonomic for the end user dev - https://sergiotapia.com/phoenix-160-liveview-esbuild-tailwin...

What has me really excited was that I was looking at Fly.io to create a global mesh of servers for a liveview app so people can connect to whatever is closest, and guess who just joined Fly.io's team? Chris! I think this is going to be a very productive stack that will get you far far ahead of the competition once you learn it's patterns. Complicated features become trivial to implement with great UX to your customers.

Re: Phoenix 1.6, RC0 released

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Post by aloukissas »

chrismccord wrote: post #2

Phoenix creator here – I'm happy to answer any questions about elixir, phoenix, or this release!

Chris: how do you feel about what's needed to make Phoenix as "core" of a technology like other similar projects like Django or Rails? The latter are used by huge companies, which have vested interest in keeping these technologies around and evolving. Is it corporate sponsorship from companies using Phoenix? Note, I've used Phoenix/Elixir as the core technology in the last of the 3 companies I've been in.

Re: Phoenix 1.6, RC0 released

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Post by chimen »

"Phoenix 1.6 ships with a new phx.gen.auth command for a complete authentication solution bootstrapped into your application" - hope it's a decent implementation. Setting up a JWT authentication took me days while learning phoenix/elixir and it is the sole reason why I never went with Phoenix for any other project. So many components involved.
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