Yesterday we launched a big feature built using Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView/Surface and it has been really great.
We are a SAAS for managing sports teams and clubs https://www.sportmember.com and our current stack is Ruby on Rails, GraphQL and React Native for our app.
When deciding to develop this new feature we narrowed it down to these two options:
1) Rails/GraphQL/React
2) Elixir and LiveView
What's great about Elixir and LiveView is
1) The whole GraphQL API layer was not necessary to build. The best API is no API ;-)
2) No need to duplicate code like for example for validation on the frontend and the backend
3) Developing the whole feature using just Elixir instead of having to switch between TypeScript and Ruby
This means that we have been able to develop this feature in about 2/3 of the time which is pretty nice!
We are a SAAS for managing sports teams and clubs https://www.sportmember.com and our current stack is Ruby on Rails, GraphQL and React Native for our app.
When deciding to develop this new feature we narrowed it down to these two options:
1) Rails/GraphQL/React
2) Elixir and LiveView
What's great about Elixir and LiveView is
1) The whole GraphQL API layer was not necessary to build. The best API is no API ;-)
2) No need to duplicate code like for example for validation on the frontend and the backend
3) Developing the whole feature using just Elixir instead of having to switch between TypeScript and Ruby
This means that we have been able to develop this feature in about 2/3 of the time which is pretty nice!