Hello there,

I’m trying to define a mix alias to clear, recreate and seed my database before starting the phoenix server.

Here is my alias config:

  defp aliases do
    [
      "ecto.setup": ["ecto.create", "ecto.migrate", "run priv/customer_repo/seeds.exs --no-halt"],
      "ecto.reset": ["ecto.drop", "ecto.setup"],
      seededserver: ["ecto.reset", "phx.server"],
      test: ["ecto.create --quiet", "ecto.migrate", "test"]
    ]
  end

When I run mix seededserver, everything goes very well up to the seeds. Once they are executed, nothing happens. It’s like phx.server isn’t called. However, elixir doesn’t quit either. The VM just hangs on. Emptying my seeds script doesn’t change anything. If I remove phx.server, elixir quits normally, and if I remove the call to the seeds script, phx.server runs normally.

I’ve tried many different things, I’ve read the docs, but I can’t wrap my head around this. I feel like I can’t see the elephant in the room, and I don’t know why.

Thanks for your help, strangers.

EDIT: to be clear, I would just like to understand technically why phx.server can’t be run after the seeds script.