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Discussion on: Why we chose Turbolinks instead of building an SPA

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rhymes

Nice article, thank you for the perspective! I've built two SPAs this year and I'm already tired ahhaha :P

The #2 question is, "How is it so fast?" Turbolinks helps with that, but it's mostly Elixir's fault.

Well, now you have to write an article about the backend :D

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sinni800

Writing an Elixir Webapp right now and I would also love to see some more insights.

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Jerod Santo

I'm happy to write more about it. Anything in particular that you're interested in hearing/reading?

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rhymes

How you made Changelog fast and your pros and cons of using Elixir in the day to day. I have zero experience in it so it's interesting to me to read professional opinions.

You seem to have a balanced view which helps ;-)

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Thomas Junkツ • Edited

Oh, I would be interested in hearing, how the choice came upon elixir. What was before that? And how was the transition to a functional paradigm? Okay, Elixir is not Haskell 😂 But I assume there were the one or the other hoopla you went through?

Besides: wasn't the site rewritten from x (ruby?) to Go (some years ago)? At least I thought so.