[cmews]

Bit sad that this is the top comment. If you read other comments from Liberonostrud he shills Laravel all the time, which is fine but don't try to drag down other frameworks with misinformation and just keep it factual.

Used both frameworks and love their communities as well. Deploying Phoenix was always a pain point for new developers, but nowadays it is quite easy to do with fly.io. Also for real-time apps Phoenix is a bliss to use (think creating Figma collaboration features/experiences where you can use the Presence module and create a channel to follow the cursors of others for example). If you ever consider choosing between Laravel or Phoenix and you want to implement collaboration features, Phoenix would always be my choice.

[Alacart]

Yeah, there were a lot of arguments in the comment that were either disingenuous or revealed they are someone who has only minimally used the framework (or maybe not at all). I've been in both Laravel and the Phoenix world, and they're both incredible frameworks. Laravel has an option for practically every battery you could want to include at the app level and it's very well refined. Phoenix brings the batteries included nature of the elixir language and builds really amazing, easy to use features and tools on top of it. They have both innovated in a bunch of areas and have made really great choices when they're using tried true methods instead. Either of them enables even a solo dev to build out a fully featured app from start to finish. They're both easy to get started with and they both can handle any level of complexity you might need.

These days I default to Phoenix because of the built in features of the language and treating realtime (websockets, pubsub, etc) as a first class citizen. And because I think it has far and away the best (and original) implementation of liveview, which is a paradigm I love working with.