crinne
Advice for choosing between elixir and nodejs
I have been lurking around here some days now and heard (read) lot of good about this community.
Now I could need some advice or a second opinion for choosing elixir for my personal projects. All my ideas are web related and some are in IoT world. So far I have used Angular6 for frontend, and nodeJs/typescript for backend REST service and I deploy with kubernetes.
Stack is mostly chosen based on tech that is used at work.
I just started developer career, I have background in QA/automation engineer, so I do not have much experience of writing big applications yet.
Im kind of between 2 choices NodeJs or elixir.
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minhajuddin
It reall depends on what your goal is:
- If you want to make it into software development as a career, you should chose node.js as the number of jobs available for a node.js dev is an order of magnitude higher than jobs available for Elixir devs.
- If you are doing this for other reasons, you should definitely give Elixir a try, Elixir has an awesome project called nerves https://nerves-project.org/ which should be great for IoT stuff.
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crinne
Book “Programming Phoenix” has by far best opening chapters I have ever read.
This “https://nerves-project.org/” looks pretty amazing.
At first I thought would miss something out if I try elixir. Like using kubernetes to deploy elixir app.
But that’s not the case and now I don’t really have any good reason not to try out elixir.
I will give it a try, If anything it can only make one a better developer.
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i-n-g-m-a-r
I like the decoupling between your frontend (angular) and backend (whether it’s nodejs or elixir or …).
this will make it a lot easier for you to extend your web app into a native app or something else (re)using the same backend (and approach in general) for all of them.
I use nodejs/mongodb for small projects that aren’t critical to anyone and don’t require a lot of maintenance - it’s very fast to set up and works just fine.
as soon as data integrity becomes a factor you’ll probably want postgresql… at which point you’ll probably want to use elixir/ecto rather than nodejs.
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