@alex Gatsby is a frontend. I've done a little bit of Phoenix work just by dint of fiddling with Pleroma and writing a few MRFs. What's the point of picking up Phoenix really? Does it make you more hireable?

There's another concern that I have with Phoenix and that it is not as mature as Rails, or Ruby, the language it's written in. Whenever I want to do something that is non-trivial, I just type in whatever that thing is and then "Ruby gem" into Google and I almost always get something that works pretty well. It's actually what kept me in Ruby as long as it has, alongside the fact that once you get over Ruby's learning curve the language is quite elegant.

When you combine the maturity of both rails and basically the entire Ruby world with the fact that Ruby code is actually very elegant to read, it does for the most part makeup for its performance flaws. It's why I'm pretty reluctant to accept it face value claims that it's "dead."