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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

Using FontAwesome in Pheonix

Easily integrate Font Awesome icons into your Phoenix web app.

Using NPM with Phoenix

While I’d prefer to utilize LiveView hooks and server-side logic for all tasks, eventually you’ll need to delve into the world of JavaScript libraries. By default, Phoenix doesn’t generate a package.json file, or an obvious place to manage JavaScript dependencies. However, it does fully support this

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