arrowsmith

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1051.
by arrowsmith 4y ago
> complaint posts are usually written with narration of "all or nothing". Mine wasn't, I specifically said that some UIs are complex enough to justify an SPA.
1052.
Phoenix on Rails: an Elixir and Phoenix course for devs who know Rails(phoenixonrails.com)
21 points by arrowsmith 4y ago|1 comments
1053.
by arrowsmith 4y ago
Great question! I'm actually writing a lengthy blog post on this topic, but it's not published yet. Until then, I think Piotr Solnica has written some really good takes: https://solnic.codes/2016/05/22&#x
1054.
by arrowsmith 4y ago
> The backend does not own UI state. It does with Phoenix LiveView. And for stuff that shouldn't need to talk to the backend I find Alpine.JS to be a comfortable option that's very lightweight and several orders of magnitude le
1055.
by arrowsmith 4y ago
> Companies are already used to hiring frontend and backend separately, it is much easier to find an expert in either than an expert in both. I think this gets cause and effect the wrong way around. If companies stopped unnecessarily div
1056.
by arrowsmith 4y ago
I get that those are the benefits. All I'm saying is that, in my opinion, the benefits you get from building a SPA are not worth the increased complexity it adds, at least for most of the projects I've encountered in the real worl
1057.
by arrowsmith 4y ago
Cough phoenixframework.org cough
1058.
by arrowsmith 4y ago
This article is great, and it reminds me of a rant I've been wanting to make for a long time: why the hell does everyone these days insist on building every web app as an SPA? I started my career in Rails. I'm sick of Rails thes
1059.
by arrowsmith 4y ago
The course does cover LiveView - see e.g. lessons 38, 45, 49. I just realised that the sales page says the course doesn't cover LiveView, whoops, that's out of date. Needs fixing.
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Show HN: An online Elixir/Phoenix course aimed at devs who already know Rails(phoenixonrails.com)
7 points by arrowsmith 4y ago|3 comments
1061.
by arrowsmith 4y ago
The Pragmatic Studio courses are great - I highly recommend them. If you're coming to Elixir from a Rails background and you want to learn Phoenix, I think the course Phoenix on Rails is good (although I'm biased, since I created
1062.
by arrowsmith 4y ago
The ampersand syntax is extremely common in Elixir code - absolutely the kind of thing you'd write every day. If your Elixir developers find the ampersand stuff hard to read, you've hired the wrong Elixir developers.
1063.
by arrowsmith 4y ago
Go to https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ and spend a few minutes refreshing the page. There's something distinctive about all these fake faces - I can't explain what it is, but once you've seen enough of the
1064.
by arrowsmith 4y ago
Try googling the names, job titles and companies of the people who "wrote" these reviews. I can't see any evidence that these people (and in some cases their companies) actually exist. I don't believe that these testimon