Phoenix VS hotwire-rails

Compare Phoenix vs hotwire-rails and see what are their differences.

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Phoenix hotwire-rails
111 98
20,558 960
0.8% -
9.4 3.2
9 days ago over 2 years ago
Elixir Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

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

hotwire-rails

Posts with mentions or reviews of hotwire-rails. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-08.
  • It's not Ruby that's slow, it's your database
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Nov 2022
  • Howire Not Working after deploying to Heroku
    1 project | /r/rails | 3 Jan 2022
  • What's New in Rails 7
    2 projects | dev.to | 22 Dec 2021
    Applications generated with Rails 7 will get Turbo and Stimulus (from Hotwire) by default, instead of Turbolinks and UJS. Hotwire is a new approach that delivers fast updates to the DOM by sending HTML over the wire.
  • Ask HN: What tech stack would you use to build a new web app today?
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Dec 2021
    For Ajax-y stuff, I am really excited by the new crop of "HTML-as-a-Service" or "HTML-over-the-wire."

    https://htmx.org/

    https://hotwired.dev/

  • Ask HN: Do we need JavaScript web frameworks?
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Dec 2021
  • anyone have full tutorial how to upgrade from rails 6.1 to rails 7 ?
    1 project | /r/rails | 16 Dec 2021
    For all the turbo/stimulus/hotwire mix, you want to add a new feature just for the sake of adding it? or do you have a use case that fits the feature? if you have then you probably already have an implementation with a different technology (stimulus reflex? some custom websockets or ajax implementation? something with anycable?) and you have to check how to migrate from that technology to hotwire. If you just want to use the feature with no real need for it to practice then just pick any tutorial from the internet (like the intro in the official website https://hotwired.dev).
  • Ask HN: What are you favorite goto frameworks when writing Web Aplications
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Dec 2021
    I was recently interested in similar topic. Here are 3 similar solutions I found:

    * https://htmx.org/

    * https://unpoly.com/

    * https://hotwired.dev/

    My personal preference is Unpoly (the idea of "layers" is awesome). But the best explanation of concept as a whole (HATEOAS, keeping app state on server using partial page updates, etc) is at HTMX homepage, and in these essays:

    * https://htmx.org/essays/hateoas/

    * https://htmx.org/essays/locality-of-behaviour/

  • Hotwire isn't only for Rails
    3 projects | dev.to | 14 Dec 2021
    At the end of 2020 the Basecamp team released a collection of Javascript libraries called Hotwire. Modern web stacks have popularized javascript-rendered front ends and JSON transmissions. Hotwire's primary motivation is to reduce the Javascript footprint and allow application front ends to be created in primarily HTML. It pairs very nicely with the Ruby on Rails ideology and is often demonstrated in that context. I aim to write a series on how Hotwire can be used in any application to simplify development and reduce the need for heavy Javascript downloads. Hotwire currently consists of two javascript libraries: Turbo and Stimulus. The first part of this series introduces Turbo.
  • How do you handle views?
    4 projects | /r/PHP | 4 Dec 2021
    I've been doing that a while until I just got sock of the JS spagetti and often duplicated code and went full on Angular CSR and never looked back. That being said, I've been seeing a lot recently about Laravel's Livewire and Symfony and Ruby on Rail's integration with Hotwire (stimulus+turbo).
  • Why learn Rails as a frontender?
    1 project | /r/rails | 28 Nov 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Phoenix and hotwire-rails you can also consider the following projects:

Django - The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

htmx - </> htmx - high power tools for HTML

sugar - Modular web framework for Elixir

SvelteKit - web development, streamlined

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

Alpine.js - A rugged, minimal framework for composing JavaScript behavior in your markup.

trot - An Elixir web micro-framework.

Svelte - Cybernetically enhanced web apps

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

phoenix_live_view - Rich, real-time user experiences with server-rendered HTML

Elixir - Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications

inertia-laravel - The Laravel adapter for Inertia.js.