v0.8.1 released
A story about rebuilding Live Engine continues, thanks to all the users who find the bugs and share with me! Especially one guy 
But there is a one more thing…
mix drab.install
Since the beginning, one of Drab’s goals is to encourage beginners to start working with modern web frameworks. I know guys, working in IT, but not professional programmers, who are using only plain php, because frameworks are too complicated. Even those, who made this one more step and moved to CherryPy or even Django, never use async model with partial page updates with Ajax. Ajax is too complicated. It may sound strange for us, who made thousands of Ajax based apps, but believe me, it is true. And here comes Drab, mimicking the standard submit → action model with event → handler.
But there is also an another barrier: complexity of installing stuff***. Someone read about Phoenix and Drab, want to try and start learning, but he can see the INSTALLATION.md with bullets, use Drab.Socket mambo-jumbo. Many people give up at this point. Now the entry level is lowered to few simple steps:
mix phx.new myapp
cd myapp
vi mix.exs
mix deps.get
mix drab.install
In the future, may it be good to add --with-drab option to mix phx.new?
***) This is also I am still using Floki, even if there are better alternatives (@f34nk’s one, for example). You need to have compilers, rusts, etc, etc - too complex for a beginner. But I am planning to enable it as an option for power users, so you always could choose yourself.
and most of the announcement I’ve posted here was about Drab.Live engine refactored, again or getting closer to stable version. Let me introduce next releases, which will contain a little bit more interesting features.