I’ve recently picked up and put down Elixir+Phoenix.
Work and Life happens…
Reviewing my notes,
I’m currently busy with Programming Phoenix LiveView (excellent b.t.w).
Black Friday is upon us soon and I see LiveSAASKit is discounted. Currently doing Python daily, however I thought this would help me to hit the ground running on play/internal projects.
My actual question, has anyone played/used this product and what are your thoughts (yay, nay, slay?)
As always your help and opinions would be appreciated.
Hey. I created the product but dont let that discourage people from (negative) feedback. You can try the concept here first:
Make sure to have A recent version of Phoenix installed. Preferbly the latest.
Andreas
Edit, my opinion is that I would think twice in general. I have tried to be so modular as possible but in some cases I have taken some opinionated decisions because something I just need to decide on. But when I start sideprojects, I usually just go for a few of the features from the start. For example, there is no reason to add Stripe integration until you have a near complete project. Kind of the same with admin and a few other things.
I can’t help you much as Im in similar position - dipping into it all when I can and trying to keep up with LV changes this past year while I get to grips with FP, Supervisors, behaviours et al (I come from react world)
I did play with the old boilerplate generator last year and it was solid. Was tempted to pull the trigger on it simply as a learning resource for things like multi-tenancy, stripe, Oban &c.
I’m currently putting together a pipeline and boilerplate for a (potential) small project with ~200 end users. This kit would get me quite some way with that. Not so keen about relying on a codebase which I haven’t properly grokked, as against my own inferior code that I can reason about.
All that said, I have the luxury of being able to go all in on Elixir currently, so I think Ive talked myself into it as I can learn a lot from it even if I don’t implement with it.
It’s good to see something like this that can help people get success with Phoenix quickly and also having the tutorials/course aspect to it.
If it was just a kitchen sink starter kit with everything pre-baked then I would have reservations but it is a modular course with working code that you can add as you go.
I have also read quite a few of your articles in the past which has been useful so I am inclined to believe that your kit would be quite good also.
I would personally make some different choices for UI components, I looked at flowbite but they need alpine.js and their markup is not semantically clean, and colours are embedded into the markup.
I much prefer the daisyUI approach with semantically correct html, tighter html with fewer classes and a separation of the colours/theme from the markup. It is also CSS only with no need for alpine.js.
With Ueberauth I would avoid given how they handle configuration being compile time which makes multi tenant customers with runtime configurable auth providers a difficult proposition. IMO Assent is the better pick here.
I also base my apps on the Ash framework domain modelling approach, which provides comprehensive features for access policies, API and a ton of other things with far less test drudgery required because so much is derived in the framework. I would suggest an Ash flavoured kit might also be something to consider in a future product variant
All that said, having a functioning reference implementation with a course guide is still very useful.
Has livesaaskit been abandoned? I just tried to install it via the MCP / claude method… and wound up with a mess that needed all sorts of fixing to get running, and, once done didn’t have all the features listed and what was in there looked to be a mess. I am going through the steps manually now… and the instructions don’t seem to apply to my setup. It’s telling me to edit files that don’t exist and change content in files that doesn’t match what’s there. Is anyone actually using this? On the surface it looks very nice… but… not if it doesn’t actually work. I don’t see any discussion here after 2023… which makes me wonder if it’s no longer supported. If so… take down the website!
