> When I started the project, realtime over WebSockets were a huge consideration. Additionally, we weren't doing anything revolutionary from a computer science

> When I started the project, realtime over WebSockets were a huge consideration. Additionally, we weren't doing anything revolutionary from a computer science perspective. Phoenix came in with a clear story for all the work I wanted to accomplish. Incidentally, my app uses websockets and real-time updates based on RethinkDB changefeeds. But more to the point of this thread, one of the major advantages is that I use a single language for both client-side code that runs in the browser and server-side code that runs in a JVM. Same language, same data structures, no impedance mismatch, no crippled transit format. All the domain code is shared between both environments.