I have the last years worked on an application written mainly in Elixir and Phoenix, and recently added Elm frontend. Because of the sensitivity of the data (a users bank transactions and financial information), and because it would be nice to not have to think about server costs until I might have …

Firstly note that a Distillery release must be built on the same architecture and OS as the target. So to run a release on Windows, you will need to build it on Windows.

You can also have a docker image and run it universally.

[image] teatimes: Because of the sensitivity of the data (a users bank transactions and financial information), and because it would be nice to not have to think about server costs until I might have customers on it, I have tried to find an easy way to run it locally/native for now, also for use…

I agree that in the long run, a having it on the web will be the most “optimal” solution, or rewriting it to a native application. But for now, it would be great if I could run it native. With that, I meant also having the database for each user locally on their computer. Since it would be financial…

Seems the best approach would be to wrap your webapp with an in-app/embedded browser. I have little experience in this though… This thread might be worth a look…

I use exrm to release as Windows Service, I have tried distillery, it doesn’t work. After release, strip your beam files of debug symbols, and edit the bat script as necessary, eg add new firewall rule to open up ports. I use InnoSetup to ship the entire release (elixir server plus a local GUI app),…

I have wrapped the frontend in Electron trough nativelify, but the problem is the backend. But I will take a look at the thread!

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NobbZ January 28, 2019, 12:07pm 4

Docker is probably not a solution for the non-tech people. Especially docker for windows.