I started as a CTO for www.amoi.no (and www.amoi.se) last wednesday and we’re an eCommerce using Elixir and liveview with sprinkles of Surface.

We’re pivoting to be a bit more api heavy, so most likely we will leave liveview out of it, but liveview was a great enabler to get the product off the ground quickly with a small and super senior / great team.

Not «eCommerce» in the traditional sense, as amoi is city-as-a-warehouse (for now) similar to what gojek etc do in asia, but we do logistics, payments and all that jazz.

LiveView is VERY FAR from being the biggest positive trait of Elixir.

Have you read on the OTP? The guarantees of a process being restarted if it crashes, for example?

Hi I come from Rails and I’m building a kind of Shoppify clone with some custom things for my country, I’m convinced that Phoenix/Elixir was the right choice, It has every thing to create a E-Commerce site. I even had to create a electronic invoice using a P12 Certificate and I was able to do using erlang libraries (from elixir), Phoenix is amazing and with liveview complex interfaces was easy to do. An E-Commerce platform is a big thing you have orders, customers, inventories, shipping, etc. there are many things, but I feel that Phoenix/Liveview help a lot.

if it can help this is my current mix.ex

  defp deps do
    [
      {:phoenix, "~> 1.5.8"},
      {:phoenix_ecto, "~> 4.2.1"},
      {:ecto_sql, "~> 3.5.4"},
      {:postgrex, ">= 0.15.8"},
      {:phoenix_html, "~> 2.14.3"},
      {:phoenix_live_reload, "~> 1.3.0", only: :dev},
      {:phoenix_live_dashboard, "~> 0.4.0"},
      {:telemetry_metrics, "~> 0.6.0"},
      {:telemetry_poller, "~> 0.4"},
      {:gettext, "~> 0.11"},
      {:jason, "~> 1.2.2"},
      {:plug_cowboy, "~> 2.4.1"},
      {:bcrypt_elixir, "~> 2.3.0"},
      {:ex_machina, "~> 2.7.0", only: :test},
      {:wallaby, "~> 0.28.0", runtime: false, only: :test},
      {:credo, "~> 1.5.5", only: [:dev, :test], runtime: false},
      {:git_hooks, "~> 0.5.2", only: [:test, :dev], runtime: false},
      {:phoenix_live_view, "~> 0.15.4"},
      {:floki, ">= 0.30.0", only: :test},
      {:cachex, "~> 3.3"},
      {:money, "~> 1.8.0"},
      {:liquex, "~> 0.5.0"},
      {:puid, "~> 1.0"},
      {:ecto_enum, "~> 1.4"},
      {:attrition, "~> 0.1.0"},
      {:poison, "~> 4.0"},
      {:geocoder, "~> 1.1.0"},
      {:countries, "~> 1.5"},
      {:mox, "~> 1.0", only: :test},
      {:struct_access, "~> 1.1"},
      {:bamboo, "~> 2.0.1"},
      {:bamboo_phoenix, "~> 1.0"},
      {:bamboo_ses, "~> 0.2.0"},
      {:grpc, "~> 0.3.1"},
      {:cowlib, "~> 2.8.1", hex: :grpc_cowlib, override: true},
      {:timex, "~> 3.7.3"},
      {:oban, "~> 2.5"},
      {:mimic, "~> 1.4", only: :test},
      {:excoveralls, "~> 0.14", only: :test},
      {:httpoison, "~> 1.8"}
    ]
  end

One of my favorite lib is liquex Liquex — liquex v0.5.0 you can use liquid lang for your templates.

Regards!

Not really. The Elixir community is well known to be upfront to tell when Elixir is not a good fit, and we have examples of that in this forum

I am not aware of Spree, but Elixir already have some e-commerce stuff, and can be found on this forum:

Or this book by @shankardevy to build an e-commerce store form scratch:

Elixir/Phoenix is very good in building complex software systems.
See the talks of Sasa Juric (“Solid Ground”, “The Soul of Erlang and Elixir”) - these are a must see when you are looking into Elixir.
Or this talk, where Rich Hickey (creator of closure) tries to not promote Erlang (but does) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROor6_NGIWU
When I look at https://spreecommerce.org/features/ - this is surely a complex software system.

On the other hand you’ll maybe want to communicate with 3rd parties (eg payment) or want to reuse sth for the CMS and so on. You’ll find more in Rails world for those.

But obviously you are doing this for fun, I’m sure you’ll have more of that using Elixir than Ruby.