This is a great Phoenix release!

Having auth built in has been one of my most wanted features for a long time and I think will help make it easier to build packages that make use of the unified system

It’s also great to see LiveView becoming more and more refined with each release

I am not sure whether there are any immediate plans for it, but I might wait to get back into reading Programming Phoenix until it is updated for 1.6 (I’ve still got Programming Erlang to finish first! )

man, time flew so fast. yesterday it was v1.3 and eex then now v1.6 and heex. I cant keep up

The reason why local auth should not be used in many-faceted, but that doesn’t mean you have to use someone else. I host my own OIDC server for my services (which it itself also has a local login, or other auth to github, google, and a few others), that’s fine, but it should not be in the webapp itself, that’s not its job at the very basic.

Side topic, It’s interesting how much their new HTML-eex engine is copying even more of what Drab did years ago (though it looks like it’s missing some abilities that drab had like fast in-place identification and replacement for the live swaps)… Still irritated about all that… >.>