Not to speak for @dimitarvp but Andrea L. has a good write-up from a year ago now:
Despite HTTPoinson not being listed in the mini table of contents, he talks about it near the end.
sodapopcan
kokolegorille
While I have been using HTTPoison for most of my HTTP clients, I am now switching to Req, it has some cool stuff baked in (retry…)
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nix2intel
nix2intel
i’ll look into this in the future, I can already tell a major refactoring going to happen here with some of the above and as I get to know elixir better.
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nix2intel
this is good to know thank you, what about priv? i’m trying to find all those edge cases.
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nix2intel
thank you so much! these are definetly the problems I want to avoid, i’ll be refactoring based on these comments. Elixir seems like such a beautiful and amazing language and community.
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seeplusplus
I have priv committed in some of my Phoenix projects, because it contains non-machine generated code (e.g., migrations, javascript, etc).
thank you so much! these are definetly the problems I want to avoid, i’ll be refactoring based on these comments. Elixir seems like such a beautiful and amazing language and community.
I am glad the comments were helpful. And I am glad you are enjoying the language and the community. I feel the same way. The community is one of the best I have seen. 
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sodapopcan
priv is the canonical place to store external resources, ie, non-Elixir files. Stuff in assets gets copied into it which is ignored by default if you use phx_new. You can also store such things in lib if you use the @external_resource module attribute though that’s a bit more advanced!
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