I’m Chris McCord. I work at Fly.io and created Phoenix, an Elixir web framework. Phoenix provides features out-of-the-box that are difficult in other languages and frameworks. This is a post about how we created LiveView, our flagship feature.

How a team that was new to Elixir over-delivered a big project in just three months. Adopting a new language is more than just a technical journey. A language is only the right tool for the job if your engineers can wield it well.

I’ve worked with a number of clients on Elixir projects and I’ve onboarded myself, I’ve been onboarded and I’ve onboarded others. And compared to my experiences with PHP/Python/Javascript and my limited experience with C#/.Net I have experienced quite a difference.

The source code is available on github.