[jerelunruh]

I primarily use Django REST Framework for APIs... has anyone moved from Django to Phoenix and can give a report on how the developer productivity compares currently? If it's not there yet I'm sure it will get there as the community grows but how is it now?

[djm_]

Phoenix is more like Flask in that regard and definitely doesn't come batteries included like Django (no auth, no admin, no cache backends etc) so it would be more work to build something as full-featured as DRF on top of it.

Having said that, I've found it easy to get along with retuning JSON and the actual speed of responses is incredible. Completely anecdotal and unscientific but one service I recently converted from DRF to Phoenix saw drops in avg response time of 350ms to about 15ms.

[Conlectus]

I'm a Django developer working who works with Phoenix in my free time, and I can say I prefer it.

However "Developer productivity" seems like an excessively vague term, and would be hard to compare in any meaningful way.

[dugmartin]

If you are doing REST apis and are interested in Elixir I'd recommend checking out Trot (https://github.com/hexedpackets/trot). If is a lightweight wrapper around Plug (Exilir's middleware framework) and Cowboy (Elixir's native http server).