Firebird

Overview

Firebird is an innovative boilerplate framework from Infinite Red designed for creating new Phoenix projects with ease. Built on the robustness of Dave Thomas's Elixir project generator, Firebird aims to streamline the development process for web applications by providing modern tooling and carefully curated defaults. As Phoenix evolves, so does Firebird, ensuring that you have the latest best practices at your fingertips for building scalable and maintainable applications.

This boilerplate is particularly advantageous for developers embarking on non-trivial applications that require a bit more customization than the standard Phoenix setup offers. By incorporating tools like Yarn and Webpack, Firebird simplifies dependencies and asset management, making the development experience smoother and more efficient.

Features

• Phoenix 1.3: Built on the latest version of Phoenix, Firebird ensures you have access to all the new features and improvements that come with the framework.
• Yarn (not npm): Leverages Yarn for package management, providing faster installs and better dependency resolution.
• Webpack 2: Integrates Webpack for modern asset bundling, allowing for better optimization and development tooling.
• Swoosh for email: Includes Swoosh, a powerful library for sending emails, making it easy to implement email functionality in your application.
• Sass with Bourbon and Neat: Supports Sass for styling, along with the Bourbon and Neat frameworks for responsive design, enhancing your UI capabilities.
• Slim templates: Utilizes Slim templating, which allows for cleaner and more concise HTML, improving readability and maintainability of code.
• Heroku Procfile and buildpack configs: Comes prepared with Heroku deployment configurations, simplifying the process of getting your app live.
• Batteries included: Firebird provides useful scripts and tools out of the box, ensuring you have everything needed to kickstart your project without hassle.