Technical Guide: Building a Blog with Elixir, Phoenix, and NimblePublisher
By
shintoist
The bagel they save for the regulars. Don't skim, savour.
Summary
This article provides a technical guide on building a blog using Elixir and Phoenix framework, with NimblePublisher for generating blog posts from Markdown. The author explains their choice of Phoenix over static site generators, details the technical stack including self-hosted Dokploy on Hetzner infrastructure and bunny.net CDN, and shares their implementation approach as a reference for others interested in Elixir development.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledTL;DR: it's an Elixir app using Phoenix server side rendered pages, with the blog post pages generated from Markdown using NimblePublisher.
This is a very belated write up of how this blog was put together! There's nothing terribly original here, but I figure it could come in handy for someone out there as a reference.
And the world needs more Elixir content.
I have used static site generators before to power my blog (shoutout to Hakyll), but I wanted to...
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