Lightweight Library For REST API

Questions / Help
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Hi,
I am trying to create REST API backend for my single-page-application but I am currently stuck on choosing a library to use. Phoenix seems a bit overkill for a simple REST API. Can anyone recommend a good lightweight library?

Cheers,
Joe

2

What exactly is it you consider overkill?

It is quite lightweight already, and if you use --no-html on project generation HTML related dependencies aren’t even pulled in.

3

I’ve had success with Plug, as well as just Elli or Cowboy.

Elli is probably the simplest and easiest, Plug is the most well documented.

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Thanks for the replys. I did not know about the --no-html flag. Plug seems to be closest to what I am after.

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Well, Phoenix is (almost) “just” set of macros that generate plugs.