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AstonJ
peerreynders
PragProg is listing a release date of 2018-Jun-10.
So please don’t get excited when you come across the amazon.com listing with a release date of 2018-Feb-25.
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RickD
Hi All. I’ve been waiting to have my devs jump into Elixir/Phoenix until the revised book comes out. it seems like the release date has been pushed back over and over again. I know that everyone says nothing’s really different except contexts but there must be more to it or the revision wouldn’t be taking so long.
Seems like a great product. Excited to have my team work with it. But not going to take that on until the new book is out. Any idea of a real timeline?
Thanks!
Rick
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nsuchy
Books take time to rewrite - it doesn’t happen overnight. I’d highly recommend using Phoenix’s documentation - it explains things really well 
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peerreynders
Title’s been updated: Programming Phoenix ≥ 1.4
Still at 2018-Jun-10
I presume that 1.4 will include webpack 4, so any references to Brunch (if there are any) will have to be updated as well (in the original book, Brunch was discussed in passing during the development installation and then primarily in a four page “Adding JavaScript” section; otherwise sporadically whenever there was cause discuss features offered by socket.js or something relating to the phoenix.js and phoenix_html.js dependencies).
Also note that the book indicates a skill level of 4 out of 6 (6 being expert) so some prerequisite knowledge is desirable.
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AstonJ
There’s lots for them to get their teeth into before that book imo. I’ve read/done the following and highly recommend the same before learning Phoenix:
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RickD
AstonJ
Ah nice! Did you know that Dave is coming out with another course ‘soon’? I can’t wait for it 
In the meantime I have just started reading Learn Functional Programming with Elixir (Pragprog) and am loving it so far - from what I’ve read so far (and I’m not sure how much experience with functional programming your team has, but) it seems to be particularly good at introducing functional concepts 
Don’t forget you can use the forum discount to get 35% off PragProg and Manning books 
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