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by stilwelldotdev 1046 days ago
I've landed on SvelteKit and classless CSS for most of my hobby projects.

I am interested in Elixir though, especially Phoenix, but found it to be difficult to manage and get started with in Windows.

Still looking for the easy way into learning to work with web sockets as a 41 year old man with very little spare time.
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CollinEMac 1046 days ago
I'm using Phoenix for my side project on a Windows machine. It hasn't been too problematic for me. Maybe something changed since you've tried it.
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OkayPhysicist 1046 days ago
There used to be a couple pain points when working with Phoenix on Windows. The bcrypt library wouldn't build, something needed to be run in Administrator mode to establish their symlink workaround, and PostgreSQL is a little more irritable on Windows. SASS (some node dependency in the Javascript asset managing stuff) also flat out didn't work on windows, but there was a drop-in replacement.

I know the SASS issue was solved (as a side effect of eliminating the node dependency), and I believe the bcrypt issue was, too.

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victorbjorklund 1046 days ago
What is "classless CSS"? Just using style attributes?
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tommica 1046 days ago
Probably just a css file that styles the html elements only without using any classes
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stilwelldotdev 1043 days ago
No style attributes. You just use HTML markup and use a classless CSS framework to take care of making it look nice. My favorite is Marx, but there are others you can find here: https://github.com/dbohdan/classless-css

Water.css, MVP.css, sakura, and Tacit are among the most popular.

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icedchai 1040 days ago
I've always liked Pico myself.
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toldyouso2022 1046 days ago
Use virtuabox and make a vm with ubuntu, install elixir and connect via ssh. This is what I did when I wanted to try it out but only had win8
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stilwelldotdev 1043 days ago
In my opinion, this is just too much effort these days.
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_joel 1046 days ago
WSL2 should get you going?
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freedomben 1046 days ago
That's what I would suggest as well. WSL2 and use asdf[1] to manage the erlang/elixir versions.

You could also use containers pretty easily as well with docker or podman for windows and the official Elixir images[2].

[1]: https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf

[2]: https://hub.docker.com/_/elixir

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stilwelldotdev 1043 days ago
WSL2, while amazing technology, is a resource hog and still a bit buggy in my experience. I use it w/ linux from time to time when I don't have a choice, but when I'm coding, it just feels like a hyper-bloated IDE.
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