Beautiful Web Design in Elixir/Phoenix

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Some discussions:

What books/courses should I take to learn Phoenix as a newbie?

Hello, I’m about to dive into web development. I was thinking about Laravel or Ruby on Rails, but then I found Phoenix. Do you recommend this learning path straight into Elixir/Phoenix without previous experience? What books/courses should I take as a newbie? Thanks!

Which book to read?

Background Hello all! So after my controversial introduction with Learning Elixir, frst impressions ( plz don't kill me ! ) - I saw a ton of recommendations for learning Elixir. The challenge however is that I don’t have time to read them all - that would take me several months or even years. So I need to start somewhere. After checking the official page: https://elixir-lang.org/learning.html I concluded I am interested in Videos / Books. What book should I get? So, I am not completely new …

Concepts of MVC

I’m studying Phoenix Framework but I want to understand basics first. Which book/mooc explains better the Design of Network-based Software Architectures (concepts like : MVC, TCP, HTTP, AJAX, REST, API etc) ? I have trouble understanding how do the connections between the model , the controller and the view work, and also between the web server and the user. Any resources to understand this from scratch ?

When learning, what order of books did you start with?

So, I’ve just finished Introducing Elixir. I did skip the last chapter on Using macros to extend Elixir as I will get to that when I get a good grip on Elixir and OTP. Now, I recently bought Dave Thomas’ ebook Elixir Programming 1.2. Should I go into that next or maybe Elixir in Action? Also, how important is it to learn Erlang at this point? Should I wait till I have a better grasp on Elixir? I did look at Erlang in the past and boy did I hate all the boilerplate. After being spoiled with Eli…