August 31, 2021

62: Chris McCord joins Fly.io and Phoenix 1.6

56 minutes

We talk with Chris McCord about his recent announcement that he’s moved to work at Fly.io! We cover what this means for the Phoenix project and ongoing Phoenix development work. He shares why he’s excited about the Fly platform which includes how it replaces his need for a CDN! We also talk about the new Phoenix 1.6 release and all the goodness coming there. This release includes the HEEX engine for validated HTML at compile time, making the auth generators official, a new mailer generator, and the move away from Webpack to esbuild. We go deeper on what the move to esbuild means for existing projects before hearing where Chris wants to put his focus next. We covered a lot, so buckle up!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/62

Elixir Community News

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/11184 – Another improvement made to mix xref graph to find why module A depends on module B.

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/11201 – Recompile only necessary deps whenever config/lock change

https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/pull/513 – IEx and Livebook both get improved intellisense (code completion) for structs and sigils.

https://twitter.com/akoutmos/status/1429835571745153024 – PromEx sponsored by SmartLogic

https://twitter.com/mitchhanberg/status/1429854685087797248 – Wallaby sponsored by SmartLogic

https://blog.erlang.org/scalable-ets-counters/ – Lukas Larsson from the Erlang OTP team, wrote a blog post about using ETS tables for distributed counters.

https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/4719 – OTP 24.1 gets better float to string support

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]

Discussion Resources

https://twitter.com/chris_mccord/status/1428821074553315332 – Chris McCord announced he joined Fly.io

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#changelog-for-v16 – Phoenix 1.6 changelog

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view – Phoenix LiveView 0.16 released

https://github.com/surface-ui/surface

https://twitter.com/MarlusSaraiva

https://github.com/surface-ui/surface_catalogue

https://dashbit.co/blog/a-new-authentication-solution-for-phoenix

https://github.com/heartcombo/devise

https://github.com/swoosh/swoosh

https://esbuild.github.io/

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/chris_mccord – on Twitter

https://github.com/chrismccord – on Github

http://chrismccord.com/ – Blog

https://twitter.com/flydotio – Fly.io on Twitter

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