carlheinz
To Kit or Not to Kit - anyone used LiveSAASKit?
Hi Everyone
I’ve recently picked up and put down Elixir+Phoenix.
Work and Life happens… ![]()
Reviewing my notes,
I’m currently busy with Programming Phoenix LiveView (excellent b.t.w).
Black Friday is upon us soon and I see LiveSAASKit is discounted. Currently doing Python daily, however I thought this would help me to hit the ground running on play/internal projects.
My actual question, has anyone played/used this product and what are your thoughts (yay, nay, slay?)
As always your help and opinions would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Carl-Heinz
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adw632
It’s good to see something like this that can help people get success with Phoenix quickly and also having the tutorials/course aspect to it.
If it was just a kitchen sink starter kit with everything pre-baked then I would have reservations but it is a modular course with working code that you can add as you go.
I have also read quite a few of your articles in the past which has been useful so I am inclined to believe that your kit would be quite good also.
I would personally make some different choices for UI components, I looked at flowbite but they need alpine.js and their markup is not semantically clean, and colours are embedded into the markup.
I much prefer the daisyUI approach with semantically correct html, tighter html with fewer classes and a separation of the colours/theme from the markup. It is also CSS only with no need for alpine.js.
With Ueberauth I would avoid given how they handle configuration being compile time which makes multi tenant customers with runtime configurable auth providers a difficult proposition. IMO Assent is the better pick here.
I also base my apps on the Ash framework domain modelling approach, which provides comprehensive features for access policies, API and a ton of other things with far less test drudgery required because so much is derived in the framework. I would suggest an Ash flavoured kit might also be something to consider in a future product variant
All that said, having a functioning reference implementation with a course guide is still very useful.
Well done!







