[foofoobar]

Thanks for your work, this really looks promising!

One question I keep thinking about. What if I want to still use React on the frontend, does it still make sense to use Phoenix for the backend then or am I throwing all benefits over board then?

[ketzo]

As a personal testament: I did this for a side project, and it worked perfectly. Phoenix does very well as "just" an API/backend environment.

[chrismccord]

Phoenix is still fantastic for JSON and GraphQL apis. In fact, with GraphQL subscriptions, it's extremely well suited because how well we handle WebSockets and pubsub. The community has a robust GraphQL toolkit which works with Phoenix. It has long been 1.0 and has had a book published around it, so quite solid: http://absinthe-graphql.org