Phoenix
Elixir web framework for server-rendered and real-time web applications, with LiveView for interactive pages.
www.phoenixframework.orgrepositorydocs
Phoenix is a web framework written in Elixir that runs on the BEAM virtual machine. Pages are rendered on the server with HEEx templates, and LiveView, which ships as a separate package, adds interactive pages. The phx.new generator creates a project, and mix phx.gen.release –docker writes a Dockerfile for a release build. A running application is a long-running BEAM process, started with mix phx.server or as a release. The Phoenix documentation recommends PostgreSQL, though other databases work and a project can run without one.
Worth knowing
A production release needs SECRET_KEY_BASE and DATABASE_URL set in the environment. Phoenix applies bug fixes only to the latest minor branch, and security patches cover the last four minor branches.
Identity
- Status
- Active
- First release
- 20143
Rendering and deploy
- Runs as
- Always on10
- Rendering
- On a server7
- Install with
- mix archive.install hex phx_new, mix phx.new5
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-18: name, Categories
phoenix.hexdocs.pm/overview.html - 2026-10-18: links, Written in, License, License model, GitHub stars
github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix - 2026-10-18: links, First release
hex.pm/api/packages/phoenix - 2026-10-18: wikidata
www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55629889 - 2026-10-18: Runtime, Content storage, Databases, Install with
phoenix.hexdocs.pm/installation.html - 2026-10-18: Templating
phoenix.hexdocs.pm/components.html - 2026-10-18: Rendering
www.phoenixframework.org/ - 2026-10-18: Current major version, Last release
github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/releases - 2026-10-18: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/phoenixframework/phoenix/contributors?anon=true - 2026-10-19: Runs as
hexdocs.pm/phoenix/deployment.html - 2026-10-25: Sites using it (HTTP Archive)
cdn.httparchive.org/v1/technologies