oliverandrich
Hi, I am currently learning Phoenix and Elixir quiet intensively by building some smaller applications. To ease my life when creating a new project with my necessary default dependencies (Tailwind, various small libs, and so on), I want to rely on a tool like degit for creating a fleshed out project.
Now to my rookie question. Is there anything wrong to always name the modules App and AppWeb in my projects? I don’t see any problems, but maybe I miss something or missed advice.
Any advice is highly appreciated.
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NobbZ
If all your applications share the same module name then they can’t live within the same instance of the VM. If this is a problem for you, you need to know on your own.
Anyway, personally I prefer to have each app to live in their own “module namespace” as it is easier for me to distinguish projects if their toplevel name differs.
derek-zhou
There is nothing wrong, however, you don’t name your children as Thing1/Thing2, so why don’t you spend a couple of minutes to come up with a meaningful name for your pet project?