tags: blog, programming, elixir, phoenix
Building and Deploying This Blog
Introduction
I didn’t want to have an Ecto dependency here because I am serving static content.
So, I made the app LiveView but didn’t add Ecto at all.
I have vendored the posts in to priv and read them all out from there with a primitive tagging system.
I will be building some more features on top of that later, but let’s cover this blog as a whole.
Building The Blog
I created a new project with no Ecto but LiveView flagged with --live.
From here. I told claude-3.5-sonnet to build me a blog.
The specific prompts were pretty general. There was a good bit of problem solving for me to get the formatting right.
We ended up at a pretty sane model.
We have a content context, which controls the posts.
The public API is quite simple here:
Now that this gets us some posts, we can make a LiveView that will display them.
Here is the heex.
We store the posts in markdown and parse them live, rather than just save HTML. This is low-overhead enough I hope that it just doesn’t matter. If it does later, I can adapt.
Posts are routed by slug, which is implicit by title in filename.
For example, priv/static/posts/2024-03-10-14-45-00-pattern-matching-in-elixir.md would be routed as /post/pattern-matching-in-elixir.