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Discussion on: A very simple scriptable Elixir server with tests

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Ethan Standel

Definitely good points! I suppose my suggestion would have to include something unsavory like exec("npm I express@latest -g") to truly get it into a true single file that you can run with just Node installed which just... yeah, yuck.

I guess I could make that point that Deno has this functionality built in if I wanted to be that kind of JS/TS fanboy but then we're out of the "simplistic" and well documented context.

For the record, I dig Elixir + Phoenix. I'm not a Node dev strictly (though it's what clients have most commonly been asking for, in my experience), I just think it's the defacto for most simple tooling.

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Kelvin Stinghen

Yeah, deno is a nice project, hopefully it gets traction as it solves a lot of the problems node has. But I'm sticking with Elixir either way. 😄

Your comment got me thinking though: is this something we want? I mean, is there a valid use case for a very simple server like this? Cause if there is, maybe there is room for another library on top of plug that would make all this simpler. Maybe even improved tooling around single-file scripts servers IDK 🤔

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Ethan Standel

I think there's a use-case for incredibly simple tooling. I mean... the Docker build for deploying this server to production just has to have Elixir installed and that's pretty cool!