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I'm not super experienced with Elixir/Phoenix, but I did notice the documentation was rather disappointing when I tried to learn it, compared to Rust. I kept trying to find a tutorial for a basic web app with Phoenix, everything I could find was for an older version which wasn't compatible with/had different names and locations for the various files than the version I had. Kinda blocked me from getting more into it.

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Sorry to hear this. Phoenix v1.7 changed how it structures files in disk and that broke quite some of the getting started material. However, the guides are always kept up to date, so you can give it a try: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/overview.html

You can also see the resources on this page listed by year: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/main/guides... - the recent launched ones are most likely up to date.

I just recently picked it up and found the official guide [1] to be pretty good. I have never read the Rust docs/book though, so I can't compare it to those.

[1] https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/overview.html

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