I've been using Elixir with Phoenix and Liveview at my job for the past three months as part of a …

It sounds like you were able to be reasonably productive without even any time to learn the framework, so I’d say you did alright! I’d say up until the recent focus on LiveView, Phoenix has been very easy for devs with experience with Rails or Rails clones in other languages to learn. Recently, with all the LiveView changes and the new components, it’s been harder, but I think it’s finally stabilizing a bit and I’ve got to say the newly-released Phoenix 1.7 is another significant step forward in terms of productivity for new apps.

Serious question—if you were on a tight deadline, why did you choose a tech stack that you still had to learn? Leveraging existing knowledge is exactly what anyone in a rush should be doing.

Which part of this app is using LiveView? Since what you link to is using next.js. Are you guys mixing the two? I really want to find a reason to build something with elixir, and it might be viable for my current work project. We won't be replacing our next.js frontend, though, that's for sure, though I wouldn't mind experimenting with it. I'm mostly interested in deploying elixir on the backend, since we are using microservices, and there would definitely be a couple of services where elixir seems like a great fit. OTOH, we are also pushing some data through ML models, and it seems like Python is still the only real choice for this kind of stuff. I really wish it weren't the case, since the python interpreter with its GIL is just a piece of crap, to be frank.

> Whenever I jumped into the JS world it often felt like I was fighting against Phoenix I've had the same experience and this is something I've tried to tackle recently. I've started working on LiveSvelte which allows you to plug in Svelte components directly into your LiveView, while still being able to push events to the server with a `pushEvent` function on the client. I've only started working on it this week but I think it's a promising idea. It's not react though but you could develop a similar package with React, I just much prefer Svelte :) https://github.com/woutdp/live_svelte