[cwisecarver]

Is it common to skip nginx or insert-your-reverse-proxy-of-choice-here?

I'm working on a Phoenix app, getting close to being ready for a beta deployment, and I was just looking for best practices as far as putting it in production.

[jerelunruh]

From what I've read (I'm not an expert either) nginx is completely optional. Cowboy (used by Phoenix) supports https termination and I understand that it's the router for Heroku so it sees plenty of traffic.