Running phoenix server and independent elixir app together

Question

I am beginner in elixir. I am working on api . It is run directly from mix by using command iex -S mix . This app includes chat_server and api server. It has seperate mix.exs file.

I also need to create website for login/logout functionality for session handling in backend. I am using phoenix for that. Is has it command to start the server mix phoenix.server

They both has common database and modules.

So, I am thinking to run these two together from single mix file. Should i create different mix.exs for web server and handle them two different apps or is it possible to run from single mix.exs file. what if one app crashes?

Is it possible to define multiple apps inside this block?

def application do
    # Specify extra applications you'll use from Erlang/Elixir
    [
      mod: { MYAPP, [] },
      extra_applications: [
                            :logger,
                            :gproc,
                            :mongodb_ecto,
                            :ecto,
                            :ecto_mnesia,
                            :comeonin,
                            :bamboo,
                            :bamboo_smtp,
                            :phoenix,
                            :phoenix_html,
                            :cowboy,
                            :gettext
                          ]
    ]
  end

It’s really hard to advise one approach over another one without knowing more details. Do `chat_server` and `api server` deserve their own `application`, or they could be just `GenServer`s (in most cases `GenServer` is perfectly enough and is easier to supervise/control.) If both are to remain applications, why won’t you use [_umbrella project_](https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/mix-otp/dependencies-and-umbrella-apps.html) to control the structure? The only question that is easy to answer is: it is not possible to define multiple apps as a single application. — Aleksei Matiushkin, May 30 '17 at 09:50

Running phoenix server and independent elixir app together

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