This is so people, who do not actively develop the phoenix, don’t need all the required toolchain for building it. The second reason is that phoenix also publishes to npm and the compiled asset is one of its assets. It also gives people a way to just download the compiled file and load it in a website again without needing the toolchain.
It’s far simpler to supply people with the source files and compiled assets – which allows them to either use their own toolchain or non – compared to making people deal with phoenix toolchain and potentially their own as well.
