Is Elixir / Phoenix ready for production?

[axelson]

@younes-alouani

Do you know what are the ressources (books, online videos) that can help me learn how to build this web app ?

I highly recommend the Elixir for Programmers course by PragDave. It gives you a great framework for building a well designed, modular application in the vein of Phoenix is Nor Your Application.

For books I would recommend Programming Phoenix

Many other resources can be found in this thread.

@younes-alouani

I mean what should I do next after learning Elixir syntax and how ?

Start building your app!

@younes-alouani

Should I build this using phoenix as a back-end ? or maybe concurrency and distrubuted systems technologies are not required for this web app ?

This is definitely a good fit for Phoenix. I don’t think you will need much concurrency or distributed systems for this app until you get to a serious scale (that the vast majority of projects never make it to).

@younes-alouani

Because I have read in many posts how much learning OTP is needed. I’m afraid to add complexity, especially that my friends told me this would be possible using Django and that in long-term it will be easy to find many developpers with python knowledge and less with Elixir and OTP skills.

Similar to the last question I don’t think you’ll need to worry very much about OTP until you start having a need to scale your app.

Overall I think you are on the right path, especially if your goal is to learn as well as to build this app. The stack that you mentioned looks good as well.