Hi all. I just started a full-time job as a Elixir developer :star_struck:. Previously I worked mostly with Ruby stack and we used a lot Procfile with foreman to start complex applications (e.g. I need to start one job worker, front-end server and the application itself). Didn’t find anything lik…

Well done for the Elixir job :slight_smile: There might be less need for tools like foreman w/ Elixir/Erlang… You could look at the first diagram of mentionned post to understand why. [image] Mental bridge from Ruby to Elixir? Questions Hi guys, I came acros…

Thank you for your answer! To be honest, I didn’t find an answer for my question. Maybe I missed something. I understand, that I can replace many things in Elixir which I used in Ruby. But my question is how to run a development environment where I need to run external tools? Like, in my case, I …

For webpack, it could done in the config/dev.exs, the watchers param. But I am not aware how to ensure your python apps has started…

unsure what your python deps are - and what are the production deployment? you could include them in the elixir project.. either way for the dev thing maybe look at how GitHub - joshuafleck/ex_ngrok: A wrapper around Ngrok providing a secure tunnel to localhost for demoing your Elixir/Phoenix web a…

You can use a System.cmd to start an application from a mix task

That is how I did actually. Now I think I can use a watcher (or Mix task) to run it automatically. Thanks anyway!

For local development you could also install forego globally and it to start the related application. But the best approach depends on how you are running those related applications in production. https://github.com/ddollar/forego

https://shift.infinite.red/foreign-processes-and-phoenix-555179c24151 linked to from here - ex_ngrok/bin/wrap at master · joshuafleck/ex_ngrok · GitHub

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mkunikow March 15, 2018, 2:01pm 7

it looks like you could put all stuff in docker compose …