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crinne

crinne

Advice for choosing between elixir and nodejs

I have been lurking around here some days now and heard (read) lot of good about this community.

Now I could need some advice or a second opinion for choosing elixir for my personal projects. All my ideas are web related and some are in IoT world. So far I have used Angular6 for frontend, and nodeJs/typescript for backend REST service and I deploy with kubernetes.

Stack is mostly chosen based on tech that is used at work.

I just started developer career, I have background in QA/automation engineer, so I do not have much experience of writing big applications yet.

Im kind of between 2 choices NodeJs or elixir.

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minhajuddin

minhajuddin

It reall depends on what your goal is:

  1. If you want to make it into software development as a career, you should chose node.js as the number of jobs available for a node.js dev is an order of magnitude higher than jobs available for Elixir devs.
  2. If you are doing this for other reasons, you should definitely give Elixir a try, Elixir has an awesome project called nerves https://nerves-project.org/ which should be great for IoT stuff.
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AstonJ

AstonJ

Have a look at this thread :003:

That chapter of Programming Phoenix is free to download :023:

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crinne

crinne

Book “Programming Phoenix” has by far best opening chapters I have ever read.

This “https://nerves-project.org/” looks pretty amazing.

At first I thought would miss something out if I try elixir. Like using kubernetes to deploy elixir app.
But that’s not the case and now I don’t really have any good reason not to try out elixir.
I will give it a try, If anything it can only make one a better developer.

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