elixir-ls VS Phoenix

Compare elixir-ls vs Phoenix and see what are their differences.

elixir-ls

A frontend-independent IDE "smartness" server for Elixir. Implements the "Language Server Protocol" standard and provides debugger support via the "Debug Adapter Protocol" (by elixir-lsp)
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elixir-ls Phoenix
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1,381 20,600
0.8% 0.4%
9.6 9.3
13 days ago 1 day ago
Elixir Elixir
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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elixir-ls

Posts with mentions or reviews of elixir-ls. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-10.
  • Vue 3.3.6 Faster Thanks to WeakMaps
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Oct 2023
    No. Not even close. But it's getting better.

    There are currently two worth mentioning:

    ElixirLSP: https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls

    Elixir tools: https://www.elixir-tools.dev/

    ElixirLSP is the older project, and has been around for a while. It does a lot, but has had sporadic issues over the years. Things like the debugger are a dog to get working, and the server itself will occasionally run into issues where it just doesn't want to work. It's always sort of focused on a subset of language server features, so don't expect much in the way of inline corrections. But it's got the essentials, formatting, basic linting, type hinting, on demand documentation, and primitive reference navigation

    Elixir tools is a new up and comer, written by Mitchell Hanberg. It's aiming to be a more complete lsp, and has plugins in its "ecosystem" for most editors. Features have been arriving rapidly, starting with things like inline corrections and far more reliable linting, and recently growing autocomplete. One of the main selling points is the elixir-tools backend is a self contained binary, so it can mostly work independent of system Elixir/Erlang version, which was a frequent tripping point for ElixirLSP

    Personally I use both at the same time, but plan to move to tools only when it's got all the features I need

  • Lightweight dev tools.
    14 projects | dev.to | 10 Aug 2023
    I decided I can live without elixir-ls when couching in return for having a usable editor. When the plugin ecosystem and documentation matures I can see myself switching to using Lapce for my primary editor.
  • GNU Debugger "GDB" Adds Support For Microsoft's Debug Adapter Protocol
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 3 Mar 2023
    Hi! I've compiled gdb from master and installed it. When I run gdb -i dap, I get JSON-RPC, so it looks like it's working, but I'm lost as to where to go from here. Does your change enable me to use a tool like https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls with GDB now, right? How might I use them together? What would be required to then have GDB debugging over DAP from inside Emacs?
  • Phoenix 1.7 is View-less
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Dec 2022
    Elixir-ls provides Language Server Protocol support as well as VS Code Debug Protocol support which gives extra powers to VS Code, NeoVim, Emacs, and the like

    https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls

  • [Elixir] Apprentice, a new alchemist.el fork
    5 projects | /r/emacs | 8 Dec 2022
    BUT, with the news that in the next Emacs version eglot (lsp client) is going to be in the core, I decide to modify alchemist in a different way, enhancing other capabilities and letting eglot do what he best does (which is the functionality of elixir-ls).
  • Is ElixirLS still in the VSCode market place?
    1 project | /r/elixir | 8 Nov 2022
    I think it's here: https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls
  • Using a Custom Language Server in Fleet?
    2 projects | /r/Jetbrains | 19 Oct 2022
    elixir-ls powers the VSCode experience, and while it works decently, I've never really clicked with VSCode. In general, for other languages, I tend to use Jetbrain's Products. I would love to give fleet a whirl, and I know in the background it can use the Language Server Protocol to support many of the languages it currently ships with.
  • Getting Started Using Nix Flakes As An Elixir Development Environment
    2 projects | dev.to | 9 Jan 2022
    Now it doesn't mean that immediately reading this starter guide, you will have everything under the sun set up with Nix Flakes for your development need. But at least, you won't have to worry about setting up asdf, your weird hacks you need for your machine and the other tiny little things to get elixir started with elixir-ls.
  • Extreme lag on INSERT_MODE when coding in Elixir with lspconfig
    3 projects | /r/neovim | 20 Oct 2021
    I have a minimal lspconfig with coq_nvim with elixirls and tsserver. The problem is that whenever i code on elixir everything becomes slow.
  • This new VS Code Update
    1 project | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 27 Jun 2021
    Well I know one extension that runs your code, elixir-ls. I believe it scans your code and runs dialyzer, a static analysis tool, which runs your code and generates types based on it.

Phoenix

Posts with mentions or reviews of Phoenix. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-14.
  • Idempotent seeds in Elixir
    2 projects | dev.to | 14 Mar 2024
    A standard Phoenix app contains a priv/repo/seeds.exs script file, which populates a database when it is run, so that developers can work with a conveniently prepared environment.
  • Ask HN: Did you encounter any Leap Year bugs today? How bad was it?
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Feb 2024
    There was one in the Phoenix Framework (Elixir) about issuing certificates with an invalid end date: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/issues/5737

    Interestingly, Azure had this bug some years ago too leading to an outage. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/summary-of-windows-az...

  • Aplicando MVVM en Phoenix LiveView
    4 projects | dev.to | 1 Feb 2024
    Official website: https://www.phoenixframework.org/
  • Things I like about Gleam's Syntax
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Oct 2023
    Since you mention Rails, have you seen https://www.phoenixframework.org/
  • Building Apps with Tauri and Elixir
    14 projects | dev.to | 19 Oct 2023
    Thus, we set out to build a desktop application using a LiveView from the Phoenix Framework in Elixir. For the uninitiated, a LiveView is a process that receives events, updates its state, and renders updates to a page as diffs. The LiveView programming model is declarative: instead of saying “once event X happens, change Y on the page”, events in LiveView are regular messages which may cause changes to its state.
  • Has anybody compared Phoenix Framwork vs. Blazor?
    1 project | /r/Blazor | 11 Oct 2023
    It seems though like Phoenix is similar like Blazor Server (using web socket), but Phoenix is: SEO friendly (first render is plain html) Light weight, scales well and concurrency is first class Easy to develop (runs a local server so you see live updates) Compiled With auth out of the box https://www.phoenixframework.org/
  • Ask HN: Why isn't Phoenix/Elixir more mainstream?
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Sep 2023
    Sorry to hear this. Phoenix v1.7 changed how it structures files in disk and that broke quite some of the getting started material. However, the guides are always kept up to date, so you can give it a try: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/overview.html

    You can also see the resources on this page listed by year: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/main/guides... - the recent launched ones are most likely up to date.

  • Emoji Generator with AI
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Sep 2023
    Yes! I love Elixir :) [Phoenix LiveView](https://www.phoenixframework.org/) is really amazing. I feel so fast working in it. I got hooked after watching Chris McCord's ['Build a real-time Twitter clone in 15 minutes'](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZvmYaFkNJI&embeds_referring...), and things have improved a lot since then.
  • Ask HN: What's the best modern back end?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Aug 2023
    I still work on a lot of Java projects. As of JDK 17 Java has most of "ML the good parts" and has the same scalable, reliable and high-performance threading Java is famous for. JAX-RS provides a Sinatra style framework that makes it easy to write JSON API back ends. JDK 21 is just about to come out as a long term supported version and it will be even better.

    I do my side projects in Python with aiohttp and think it is a lot of fun even though people tell me it is suicide (I guess if you block the thread you are in trouble)

    I think "Next.js" really wants a node.js backend which has the big advantage that you can share code with the front end and back end. It's basically single-threaded but I know people who are happy with it.

    The system I'd most like to try is

    https://www.phoenixframework.org/

    which is just great if you want to do stuff with websockets that is more interactive than what most people are doing.

  • Ask HN: Leetcode for Back End and Server Development
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jul 2023

What are some alternatives?

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hotwire-rails - Use Hotwire in your Ruby on Rails app

ecto - A toolkit for data mapping and language integrated query.

kitto - Kitto is a framework for interactive dashboards written in Elixir

ardour - Mirror of Ardour Source Code

trot - An Elixir web micro-framework.

alchemist.el - Elixir Tooling Integration Into Emacs

RIG - Create low-latency, interactive user experiences for stateless microservices.