Getting Started With Elixir and Phoenix, a JS Alternative

Elixir is an alternative to JavaScript-based web development that claims to offer faster development and lower costs. In this developer walkthrough, we try out Elixir and its Phoenix web framework.

Elixir was created by Josè Valim back in 2011, in response to the challenges of web development. Valim aimed to combine the reliability and scalability of Erlang with the goals of modern developers. Elixir is a programming language built on the Erlang VM, known for concurrency and fault-tolerance. Elixir can handle thousands of simultaneous…