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like others have said, you'd probably write a JSON API separately. One thing I'll mention though, is that the conventional design of Phoenix to use context modules often makes that very easy, in that your liveviews and API can just call the same business logic functions to crud resources.

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This. As long as you keep the API relatively simple, something like basic CRUD "restful", it is really low cost to transform your domain model modules (regularly called "Context" in the community) into whatever JSON you need.

It is just two different presentation of the same data, so you do the work on the data model and the way to access it in elixir, then you just thinly wrap it in the API for it.

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