When developing a hex package intended to be used with Phoenix projects, such as a component library, plug, on_mount callback, or any other piece of shared code, Phoenix needs some extra configuration to enable the great developer experience we have come to expect. By default, a Phoenix app will only … Read more

A couple years ago my wife, who is an 8th grade US History teacher, came to me for help with a spreadsheet to simulate the US stock market leading up to the crash in 1929. The spreadsheet was cumbersome, very complicated for the students, and a major pain for her … Read more

Update 2024-04-10: This article has been updated with a better Workaround that uses your generated MyappWeb.Endpoint.start_link/1. The original article called directly into Phoenix.Endpoint.Supervisor which was more brittle. In Phoenix 1.7.11, the Endpoint.init/2 callback was deprecated. If you have defined it, then … Read more

Here's a quick Plug for a Phoenix project that allows you to quickly and easily set template variables (assigns) in either a Pipeline or for all actions in a controller. I used this recently as a way to set a variable, admin: true, for all of my controllers under an … Read more