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Yep! Just use Plug. There’s no need to drag the entire Phoenix stack in.

Then you'll need to create own version of migrations, routing, configure asset building pipeline etc etc etc. Phoenix have everything in place, without need to re-implement lots and lots of basics

A bit pedantic, but migrations are provided by Ecto [1], not by Phoenix. You don't need Phoenix to use Ecto.

https://hexdocs.pm/ecto/Ecto.html

Well, you'll still need to add Ecto, configure it to use separate configs for prod/dev/test environments etc - so point still stands :)

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