301: Testing, Debugging, and Departures

301: Testing, Debugging, and Departures

From Thinking Elixir Podcast by ThinkingElixir.com

April 28, 2026 · 18 min

About this episode

The episode discusses recent updates in the Elixir community, including new releases and significant departures.

News includes Phoenix LiveDebugger hitting v1.0 with an interactive tour to go along with it, LiveStash v0.2.0 shipping with API improvements and a tease of Redis & Mnesia adapters on the horizon, German Velasco making his TestingLiveView.com course completely free for the Elixir community, Volt reaching v0.8.0 as an Elixir-native frontend build tool that eliminates the need for Node.js, and Francesco Cesarini announcing his departure from Erlang Solutions while pledging to remain active in the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/301 Elixir Community News https://paraxial.io/ – Paraxial.io is sponsoring today's show! Sign up for a free trial of Paraxial.io today and mention Thinking Elixir when you schedule a demo for a special offer. https://x.com/swmansionElixir/status/2047324614519652484 – Phoenix LiveDebugger hits v1.0 — Software Mansion announces the milestone release, signaling a shift from active development to maintenance. They consider it feature-complete. https://github.com/software-mansion-labs/live-debugger-tour – LiveDebugger Tour — an interactive, hands-on tutorial launched alongside v1.0 to walk users…

Topics covered

  • Testing
  • Debugging
  • Elixir
  • Phoenix LiveDebugger
  • LiveStash
  • Community News

Keywords

  • Elixir
  • Phoenix LiveDebugger
  • LiveStash
  • TestingLiveView
  • Volt
  • Francesco Cesarini
  • Erlang

Sponsors

Paraxial.io

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Phoenix LiveDebugger, LiveStash, Volt, Erlang Solutions, Erlang Ecosystem Foundation, Software Mansion

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