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Phoenix Development with Devenv

Devenv is an environment management utility for NixOS. It makes setting up and managing development mostly painless. Phoenix applications have a number of moving parts that need to be available for everything to work nicely. Heres what we will setup: * Elixir * Erlang/OTP * NodeJS * NPM * ElixirLS * PostgreSQL * Process management for

Distributed Elixir

An introduction to distributed elixir. Building an application that distributes a workload across multiple nodes in an Elixir application cluster.

Handling Local Time Zones with Phoenix

There is little more maddening than dealing with time zones. One good thing about client side web development is – it happens on the client. On the client you have easy access to the user's locale information. So, you can store all your time data in UTC like a

Rust Development in NixOS

Using NixOS to get a full, and non persistent, development environment for Rust.

Using FontAwesome in Pheonix

Easily integrate Font Awesome icons into your Phoenix web app.

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