Who here runs their personal blog / website on Phoenix / #ElixirLang? Anyone? What's been your experience? Is it overkill? Is it worth it considering the current WordPress wars going on?
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My personal website ran on elixir for the last few years. I switched because I wanted to be able have interactive examples in blogposts, so a static page wasn‘t cutting it. nimble_publisher still allows me to keep mostly the same workflow as with a static site generator. https://github.com/LostKobrakai/kobrakai_elixir
Oh wow I love being able to look through the code of your site, thanks for sharing it. I can both learn a lot and realise how much I have to learn at the same time :-D
Wow, okay, I didn’t realise that Zotonic existed.
This reminds me that perhaps the Erlang/Elixir community needs a site that helps people find interesting libraries and tracks how up-to-date they are…
That’s true but I was very happy with Jekyll before. But now it’s also nice to have a backend. It makes some things easier (captcha for newsletter signup, insert signup prompt below headings, etc)
I’ve run on a static site generator before also and there is something nice about having dead simple html/css code being deployed. But then the minute you want to do anything complex, you can’t or it’s too difficult to be worth bothering.
I like the idea of "semi-static" websites, that generally are static, but have a backend for some additional value (comments, random articles). This way even if the backend goes down, the main value - the content - is still available.
Hmm...answering the letter, if not the spirit, of the enquiry: I do. It's not the most structurally sound or well-populated website, and it gets no traffic. But I've had lots of fun with it. :P (It uses Nimble Publisher and some tricks published by folk like @kobrakai.de and @peregrine.bsky.social)
Okay, I'm getting the impression that Nimble Publisher is worth looking into! I shall do that, thank you. I do see the fun and learning experience in using your technology of choice for your personal site, I mean, you get to experiment and gain experience with the whole end-to-end process.
I’ve tried beaconcms, it’s coming along nicely but it’s very early days, I think there’s a long way to go before it is ready.
When I first saw ‘tableau’ I thought of the commercial BI tool of the same name. It’s nice to see such a project exists.
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This reminds me that perhaps the Erlang/Elixir community needs a site that helps people find interesting libraries and tracks how up-to-date they are…
I'd say it's rather an overkill, but so is Wordpress, unless you have specific requirements, such as posting via email or from mobile on the go.
If you need CMS features there’s https://beaconcms.org/, though I haven’t tried it yet.
When I first saw ‘tableau’ I thought of the commercial BI tool of the same name. It’s nice to see such a project exists.