E-commerce in Elixir - pros and cons (vs Rails)

“5K users” is not much information, but I don’t imagine Phoenix would have any trouble serving that load on reasonable servers.

An alternative question: what are your requirements that preclude an off-the-shelf solution (like Spree etc) or even a hosted approach?

“Show products and let users buy them” is a pretty well-covered problem space, but it takes a lot of work to build a clean and consistent user experience - work that you might not want to do over again without a good reason.

I’m sorry for the misunderstanding - Its “5k users per month”, post edited

Answering your question - of-the-shelf solutions like Spree will cover my requirements, but… I will certainly try to make my own app

Using what you already know is often a great choice.

I am not aware of any. As Elixir is much younger language with more niche community, I wouldn’t bet that there are any “big” products like these though at present.

Not really. The Elixir community is well known to be upfront to tell when Elixir is not a good fit, and we have examples of that in this forum

I am not aware of Spree, but Elixir already have some e-commerce stuff, and can be found on this forum:

Or this book by @shankardevy to build an e-commerce store form scratch:

LiveView is VERY FAR from being the biggest positive trait of Elixir.

Have you read on the OTP? The guarantees of a process being restarted if it crashes, for example?

That is so helpful, thank you all for your responses, I already have in mind some ideas, so thanks

As a matter of fact - yes, I have. The question was rather what other advantages Phoenix has over Ruby (or others langs) in building an e-commerce. I’m sorry if anyone misunderstood me.. Thank you all for the replies, I already have my answers.

Elixir/Phoenix is very good in building complex software systems.
See the talks of Sasa Juric (“Solid Ground”, “The Soul of Erlang and Elixir”) - these are a must see when you are looking into Elixir.
Or this talk, where Rich Hickey (creator of closure) tries to not promote Erlang (but does) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROor6_NGIWU
When I look at Spree Commerce Features | B2B, Marketplace & Cross-Border Commerce - this is surely a complex software system.

On the other hand you’ll maybe want to communicate with 3rd parties (eg payment) or want to reuse sth for the CMS and so on. You’ll find more in Rails world for those.

But obviously you are doing this for fun, I’m sure you’ll have more of that using Elixir than Ruby.

Thanks you for the reply and sharing the materials,
Btw, yes, its for fun

Best Regards