Building a Real-Time Application in the Phoenix Framework with Elixir

The blog post discusses building real-time applications using Phoenix LiveView, a library within the Phoenix framework that allows developers to create interactive user experiences with server-rendered HTML and WebSocket communication, all without dedicated frontend JavaScript. The tutorial guides the reader through creating a crowdfunding application, "Phoenix Fund," to demonstrate LiveView's capabilities, such as real-time updates and handling events with minimal code. It emphasizes the performance benefits of Phoenix, comparable to frameworks like Ruby on Rails, and introduces Phoenix PubSub to broadcast real-time updates across multiple clients. The post suggests using Earthly to streamline build processes and hints at further project enhancements, such as adding persistence and creating multiple auctions with Ecto. The article concludes by acknowledging the power of Phoenix and LiveView in developing real-time features and provides additional resources for those interested in exploring more.