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You can have Phoenix serve API endpoints and not include the phoenix html template package in your mix files.

> I’d prefer a simple React, Postgres, Elixir stack (REP).

That's not even a web stack. Web stack for example LAMP include a web server (Apache) or something that is able to response to client request. Elixir is a language it can't serve anything. You need cowboy or something and then build around it. Or you can just use Phoenix.

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> You can have Phoenix serve API endpoints and not include the phoenix html template package in your mix files.

Incidentally, that's what I did for the project in the blog post. If you bootstrap with `mix phx.new --no-html --no-webpack` then you get a leaner version of Phoenix that's good for an API, without the HTML and frontend asset parts.

Oh wow I didn't even know there's a command for it. Thanks.

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