[HN Gopher] Building a Blog with Elixir and Phoenix
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       Building a Blog with Elixir and Phoenix
        
       Author : shintoist
       Score  : 68 points
       Date   : 2026-03-26 17:16 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | thibaut_barrere wrote:
       | I am considering doing something similar, but embedding
       | "livebook" bits so that I can run code & liveviews right in the
       | middle of my posts in the future.
       | 
       | Curious to know if anyone went that route (or something similar)
       | already!
        
         | arikrahman wrote:
         | I have done this but with Clojure, I needed to use a dynamic
         | language with responsible state management (via Re-frame), but
         | also had a good REPL. Seamless REPL integration with the
         | language itself made it easier as most of the tools I needed
         | were pre-existing.
        
         | jamauro wrote:
         | this might be of interest to you https://popcorn.swmansion.com
        
       | mikhmha wrote:
       | Wow. I am so glad for this post because I am literally planning
       | to do this today. I've been building an MMO using Elixir as the
       | backend, and currently the main website is a static site a friend
       | made for me using Vue.js. Mostly it just functions as a way to
       | display blog posts that show new updates to the game. And it
       | contains a button to "launch" the browser client for the game
       | which is just a redirect to a page hosted on a cloudflare bucket
       | that contains the game files.
       | 
       | But I figure now is the time to update the site. I don't know
       | enough about Vue.js and I'm more of a backend programmer anyways.
       | I've been putting it off for so long. I always figured the site
       | would be temporary until I put in the time to learn some Pheonix.
       | Its a bit strange being in the Elixir world working on a project
       | that doesn't touch Phoenix in any way. To me its like an entirely
       | new domain for a language that I consider myself "skilled" in.
       | Whereas for others Elixir = Pheonix. So this write-up really
       | helps remove the overwhelming feeling I've had about starting,
       | because I don't need liveview or ecto or all the other stuff but
       | most of the learning resources focus on that.
       | 
       | I'm kind of excited to start now. Eventually it will be a not-so
       | static website that will maybe interface with some exposed
       | endpoints running on the main game server so I can show stats
       | like "live players" or a "live map" of the game on the main site.
       | But for now it will remain completely isolated from the game
       | server.
        
         | Joel_Mckay wrote:
         | The Phoenix framework is great, and I wish it was more popular.
         | 
         | Specifically how Channels trivially solve several common
         | problems:
         | 
         | https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/channels.html
         | 
         | The minimal wire traffic on a Phoenix deployment usually
         | surprises people at first. Best of luck =3
        
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