From Ruby to Elixir

Explore the Foundations of Phoenix

Phoenix is Elixir’s most popular web-development framework. On the surface, this seems like it would be a large library with a ton of code, but it’s actually fairly lightweight. (As of writing this paragraph, there are 46 files in the main lib/phoenix folder of the project.) This simplicity means that it’s relatively quick to learn how to effectively use Phoenix to write web applications.

The differences between Rails and Phoenix are numerous—they are different frameworks, have different goals, and are built for different programming paradigms! Instead of attempting to list specific differences, this section covers major differences in the goals and development of each framework.

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