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Umbrella Apps - What are they and Why/How are they Useful? #76

Open nelsonic opened 7 years ago

nelsonic commented 7 years ago

"Umbrella apps enable multiple child applications to run together, which can help to reduce the overall complexity of our app by separating different functionality into smaller apps that run together."

Intro: http://www.phoenixframework.org/docs/configuration#section-umbrella-apps

Background Reading / Watching

Shattering your application into an umbrella project by Luke Imhoff (Lonestar ElixirConf 2017): https://youtu.be/1ocF_9Nc0ik
Building Umbrella Project by Wojtek Mach (ElixirConf 2016): https://youtu.be/6NTmUQClHrU
Heroku deployment of Umbrella Apps: https://medium.com/@robinsjdotcom/checklist-for-deploying-umbrella-applications-to-heroku-74a79e07e21f
Create umbrella app and deploy with distillery: https://medium.com/@brucepomeroy/create-an-elixir-umbrella-project-containing-a-phoenix-app-and-build-a-release-with-distillery-46371f2617df

Todo:

[ ] Create an example umbrella app to showcase this functionality.