https://elixirisallyouneed.dev

I've been building an Etsy-lite replacement in my free time with it: https://plukio.com/

It's pretty enjoyable. I also like using Ash for data modeling and business logic expression. It's also quite lovely.

Recently i've redone my app website (https://alt-tab.app), and I implemented a minimal spa.js that has a similar approach. I find the end result blazing fast, simple to maintain / reason about, few moving pieces. I used Early Hints, compressed every single thing, inlined CSS, etc. I don't know how i could even make it faster.

I recommend this approach for websites that are not very complex. Of course if i made a browser-based music player with a super dynamic UI, that would have been a different story~

I haven't touched it in a while, Since writing code these days, as most of us know, it's basically steering an LLM.

So I wonder how good are LLMs at writing Phoenix or Elixir so to speak? Time for me to create another side project... and figure it out.

On one hand, yes it is convenient, but on the other it could become a huge mess. It reminds me of Rails 2.x where it became almost impossible to debug, or fix front end code that used rjs or whatever it was called. Because disparate snippets of JS were littered throughout your code base in files that were hard to find.

I’m sure the Phoenix team has put a lot of effort into it, and I truly hope it slaps. I myself am just really hesitant to use it, when CSS files and non colocated JS work just fine. I’ll probably be waiting a couple years before giving it a try