4 ms·
Big fan of Phoenix and the Elixir community. Everyone has been extremely welcoming and Chris himself has given me some advice when I'm stuck. Very happy with th
by dimgl 11y ago
Big fan of Phoenix and the Elixir community. Everyone has been extremely welcoming and Chris himself has given me some advice when I'm stuck. Very happy with this framework and I look forward to seeing how the Elixir community grows.
To newcomers: learn Plug first. I created a web server using just Plug and it's been a blast. At first it was difficult to wrap my head around how things were supposed to work, but as time went on Plug's flexibility really started to show; I basically fell in love with Elixir! Now I've moved on to Phoenix (which is built on top of Plug) and it's been a much easier ride than diving into Phoenix head first.
- tonyarkles 11y agoI second the recommendation to build something with Plug first. Phoenix was my first dip into Elixir, but I quickly found that I didn't know wtf was going on. I built a little API thing that accesses sheets via the Smartsheet API, and decided to do that from scratch. Started with a GenServer to do the API access, and then added Plug. This showed me how all of the pieces fit together without starting from even a Plug template. Very useful exercise!
- urs2102 11y agoI can totally agree - I've been on their Slack channel and it's nothing but friendly and welcoming. It's kind of like the MINASWAN (Matz is Nice And So We Are Nice) idea in Ruby, but since the Elixir community is even smaller, it's even more important.