Comparing Phoenix to Rails in December 2022

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/elixir

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  • jsbundling-rails

    Bundle and transpile JavaScript in Rails with esbuild, rollup.js, or Webpack.

  • The functionality comes from https://github.com/rails/jsbundling-rails and https://github.com/rails/cssbundling-rails -- both come with Rails 7 and all you have to do is generate your app with the choices you want such as -j esbuild --css tailwind.

  • cssbundling-rails

    Bundle and process CSS in Rails with Tailwind, PostCSS, and Sass via Node.js.

  • The functionality comes from https://github.com/rails/jsbundling-rails and https://github.com/rails/cssbundling-rails -- both come with Rails 7 and all you have to do is generate your app with the choices you want such as -j esbuild --css tailwind.

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  • rubygems

    Library packaging and distribution for Ruby.

  • I myself have seen a fair share of abandoned, or worse, buggy libraries on both sides. And supposed Elixir deployment issues are nothing compared to [this still being an issue with Bundler](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/issues/3958). Really? I have to manually prune out build artifacts to at least keep the resulting Docker image size 'passable'?!

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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