I’m writing a gameserver in it using Elixir without Phoenix. I’m using cowboy (erlang webserver) for websockets and redis for persistence. You can pretty easil

I’m writing a gameserver in it using Elixir without Phoenix. I’m using cowboy (erlang webserver) for websockets and redis for persistence. You can pretty easily opt-in on specific phoenix libraries one by one and pick any you like and omit those you don’t. The “phoenix app” type stuff is just a convention over configuration thing, but unlike something like Rails, it’s perfectly doable to pick and choose the libraries you want and install these later when you need them, or remove them when you don’t. The functional approach to Phoenix makes it really easy to substitute things without breaking other things.