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0 pointstbrooks10y ago0 comments

Fortunately, you don't have to make the choice between performance and productivity any longer.

Elixir and Phoenix give you the great productivity and the performance of being run on the Erlang VM.

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Almost. I believe that half of the people that approach Phoenix coming from Rails stop when they realize there isn't any registration and authentication framework as good as Devise. The closest match is Addict but it covers only the basics and requires too much work. If one has to write his own product that could be OK. If one has to code for a customer it erodes the profit.

tbrooksOP10y ago

I thought the same thing too. A couple responses:

1) The Elixir community is still in its infancy and the community is growing rapidly and flourishing. If the concern is there isn't an equivalent Elixir library for X gem, it's only a matter of time before it is. So please join!

2) I attended the Phoenix training at ElixirConf this week and an easy answer to registration and auth is "hey, write a plug". Once you dive into how straightforward plugs (1) and what (init/1, call/2) do, it's really simple.

You will appreciate the explicit nature of plugs compared to say, Rack middleware...

I'm rewriting a Rails app in Phoenix and overall, I've found it to be a really pleasant experience.

(1) http://hexdocs.pm/plug/extra-readme.html

gozo10y ago

I'm not so concerned by the lack of libraries as with that no one seem to know the state of Elixir, Phoenix or BEAM. Security vulnerabilities are found all the time in established stacks and things like robustness, reliability, maintenance and growth are ongoing issues. Yes, BEAM is proven in enterprise use, but most of us don't have those resources. The first time I tried Elixir the welcome site broke, which wasn't a big deal, but it still didn't exactly instill a lot of confidence.

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