We've all run "mix phx.new", but have you ever thought to customize what that does? We talk with Victor Björklund who explains how we can create customized Phoenix project generators and why we might want to. We also discuss customizing the phoenix generators for our already generated projects. We explore the idea of supporting 3rd-party maintained generators and what that might look like. A fun discussion sure to “generate” ideas for your project!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/167

Elixir Community News

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.15.5 – Elixir 1.15.5 bug fix release
https://pdx.social/@kenichi/110934002380304132 – Livebook code cells getting Vim and Emacs support
https://pragprog.com/titles/tvmelixir/adopting-elixir/ – Good quote from the “Adopting Elixir” book (published 5 years ago)
https://twitter.com/paraxialio/status/1694832429087728005
https://elixirforum.com/t/elixir-saves-pinterest-2-million-year-other-marketing-examples/57909/14 – Elixir Saves Pinterest $2 million/year
https://twitter.com/davydog187/status/1694768741467165147 – Tweet by Dave Lucia about what people can accomplish with Elixir and Phoenix in a short amount of time.
https://twitter.com/geolessel/status/1695467313477173313 – Geoffrey Lessel shared observation that the timing page used by the World Cube Association is a Phoenix LiveView page.
https://github.com/thewca/wca-live – Platform for running WCA competitions and sharing live results with the world created by Jonatan Kłosko
https://twitter.com/AshFramework/status/1696257451857707295 – Ash Framework experiments with adding a new “atomics” feature.
https://github.com/ash-project/ash/blob/main/documentation/topics/atomics.md – Atomics documentation and design
https://twitter.com/ac_alejos/status/1695562511787983164 – Elixir gets a new Reinforcement Learning library named "Rein" for Nx.
https://github.com/DockYard/rein – Rein project on Github
https://fly.io/phoenix-files/star-cross-live-view-processes/ – Star-Crossed LiveView Processes about linking processes to solve UI design

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com

Discussion Resources

https://victorbjorklund.com/guide-to-custom-phoenix-phx-new-generator-mix-task
https://jawdropping.io/
https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/tree/main/installer
https://hex.pm/packages/oban

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/BjorklundVictor – on Twitter
https://github.com/victorbjorklund/ – on Github
https://genserver.social/victorbjorklund – on Fediverse
https://victorbjorklund.com/ – Blog

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167: Customizing mix phx.new?

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