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As a frontend developer working who works with React and Redux, I keep seeing Elixir and Phoenix articles popping up nowadays.

What is the best reason to learn Elixir and the Phoenix for someone like me who just handles the client side part of a web application? Is it a better alternative to say, Django or RoR?

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If you just handle the client side part, you don't really need to learn any of it. If you do need to get into the server-side, Elixir/Phoenix seems like a great fit if you are doing real-time/concurrent stuff (websockets are dirt-simple). If you just need a persistent storage backend, RoR or Django will get you up and running quickly, and both are adding their own websocket support as well.

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