andyjones11

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   by andyjones11 4y ago

   Elixir, Phoenix, LiveView + Postgres Main reasons are: - Can build entire app (with SPA-type experience on the FE) in a single codebase - No need to build any HTTP APIs - Periodic tasks and managing in-memory state is super easy in Elixir.
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   by andyjones11 4y ago

   There was a really great talk at ElixirConf 2022 with this tip + loads more. [1] Definitely check it out! [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BotVs6TXR-c
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   by andyjones11 5y ago

   Elixir makes state management very easy by default. Elixir implicitly encourages you to write code in-terms of state, events and transitions - so managing game state can be done using the default tools/abstractions. When I write LiveVi
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   by andyjones11 5y ago

   The way I've seen this play out in reality is that a lot of the "presentational logic" required by the templates gets computed in the "Django Views" layer (akin to the "controller" layer in traditional MVC