In the previous recipe, we created our first Phoenix application. In this recipe, we will add some routes to the phoenix to-do application.
By adding routes, we define the behavior of the application whenever a given URL/endpoint is accessed. The Router task is used to parse the requests and then dispatch them to the current controller's action, passing any existing parameters to it.
Open the file generated in the previous recipe in your code editor. A copy of the full code for this recipe can be found at Code/Chapter 7/phoenix_routes/todo/web/router.ex:
defmodule Todo.Router do
use Phoenix.Router
pipeline :browser do
plug :accepts, ~w(html)
plug :fetch_session
plug :fetch_flash
plug :protect_from_forgery
end
pipeline :api do
plug :accepts, ~w(json)
end
scope "/", Todo do
pipe_through :browser # Use the default browser stack
get "/", PageController, :index
get "/text", MyController, :plaintext
get "/generated...