cvkmohan
The upcoming Phoenix 1.6 release looks very interesting. Became a habit to watch the commits - and - what they are bringing in.
- phx.gen.auth integration - for built in authentication
- swoosh integration to provide a mailer baked in.
- the new templating language heex which is HTML aware.
- The new component function - which allows the componentization of views.
- Ecto.Enum integration into the generators.
Really looking forward to it.
@josevalim - any expected time of arrival for Phoenix 1.6?
Two suggestions: - It would be good to move asset packaging from webpack to esbuild or Vite where the build gains lot of speed - and - we deliver javascript as modules.
- heex becomes the default templating engine over eex. ( A tongue in cheek question - any plans for making LiveView the default method for building full stack web applications? People who need API would have no conflict with that! )
I am a Rails migrant - and - feeling at home. Thanks a lot for all the work. ( Oops… These two sentences are not just to @josevalim , but to the entire community! )
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Sebb
3+4 are really a great step forward. I think heex will replace leex, not eex.
How far will the swoosh integration go? Will it be directly linked to gen.auth and bring some templates so we can directly send registration and lost-password mails?
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josevalim
The most important feature of
esbuildis to not move from under us. Subscribe to Phoenix issues tracker and the Phoenix tag in the forum, you will see folks struggle withphx.newfrom time to time. Maybe thenodeversion is too old, maybenpmis too recent, maybenode-sassjust stopped working. All I want is forphx.newto work 5 years from now and this direction gives us that. We want you to be able to runmix phx.new, thenmix phx.server, and have that page functional, regardless if you have opted-in to LiveView or not.After that, you can opt-in to any complexity you want. You can bring Redis, you can bring Webpack, you can bring RabbitMQ. But the initial bootstrap should always work and stand the test of time.
I would love to ship with no assets toolchain but that’s not practical. Even a barebone Phoenix app requires importing “phoenix_html.js” and we can’t just bundle it into the app because running “mix deps.update phoenix_html” should update both the Elixir code and JavaScript code. So a minimal bundler is required even without LiveView (and even more required with LiveView).
I seriously recommend everyone thinking that the current status quo is ok to spend some time on the support front lines. It will be immediately apparent it is not fine and that it generates an incredible amount of churn.
chrismccord
Very Soon™
chrismccord
this is already happening. esbuild so we get js/css bundling/minification. No node, no npm, no webpack
7 is essentially happening as well as heex will indeed be the default.
--htmland--livewill be mergedLast Post!
josevalim
Just a heads up latest tailwind no longer needs the zombie.sh wrapper!
You probably figured it out, but for others, start here: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/Phoenix.LiveView.Helpers.html#sigil_H/2
Also note you don’t have to convert to .heex right now, so feel free to take it easy.
I believe he refers to the CDN version of Tailwind specifically, which I believe includes all classes and it is often too large. So you definitely want Tailwind to be tailored to your needs. Other than that, using CDN is
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PS: I will close this thread so we unify all of those useful updates tips and feedback in one place. But I enjoyed the waiting period and seeing people excited about the release here.
Here is the 1.6.0-rc announcement: Phoenix 1.6.0-rc.0 released!