TBD

# Please don't read this. 🙏

This is just me capturing my thoughts. It's not fully-formed and I'm not inviting comments/feedback _yet_ ... 👌
Will be adding to this over the next couple of weeks and we can discuss when each section is updated.
As you can see, it's just an outline, that's very much on purpose.

# Boilerplate, Misdirection and Magic 🪄

`Phoenix` has ballooned in it's scope and complexity and thus a basic `Phoenix` project has considerably more "boilerplate".

A good history lesson is to look at Chris McCord's `phoenix_chat_example` which is built with `Phoenix 1.3`:

https://github.com/chrismccord/phoenix_chat_example/blob/7fb1d3d040b9d1e9a1bbd239c60ca1f4dd403c24/mix.exs#L24-L30

It has 5 dependencies and _considerably_ less code.

By contrast we recently updated our `phoenix-chat-example` to `Phoenix 1.7` https://github.com/dwyl/phoenix-chat-example/pull/152

https://github.com/dwyl/phoenix-chat-example/blob/e10e8dcdf730c1da22f3ab7d7357ebe608848833/mix.exs#L45-L59

15 dependencies. and this is only because we created the example app with the `--no-mailer --no-dashboard --no-gettext` flags to exclude `mailer`, `dashboard` and `gettex` (translation).

# Phoenix `1.7` 🚀

https://www.phoenixdiff.org/?source=1.5.0&source_variant=live&target=1.7.0

## Modals 🤦‍♂️

https://github.com/dwyl/product-ux-research/issues/38

# `Ecto` 💔

# Maintenance ⏳

# Types 🤷‍♂️

# Supervision 👮‍♀️

# AI / ML 🤖

# Parallel Processing 💻

# Channels ⏩

# Presence 👥

# Auth 🔒

# UI Frameworks 🦄

# Sunk Cost Bias? 💸

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