SMRTR ProgrammingSep 17, 2025Daily.dev

Getting Started With Elixir and Phoenix, a JS Alternative

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Elixir and Phoenix offer a JavaScript alternative for web development, promising faster performance and cost savings. Built on Erlang VM, Elixir excels at handling thousands of simultaneous connections for applications like chat apps and live dashboards. Despite these advantages, the author found Phoenix unintuitive and frustrating to use, encountering issues with scaffolded code and complex directory structures during a basic CRUD application build.

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