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Phoenix Web Development

By : Brandon Richey
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Phoenix Web Development

By: Brandon Richey

Overview of this book

Phoenix is a modern web development framework that is used to build API’s and web applications. It is built on Elixir and runs on Erlang VM which makes it much faster than other options. With Elixir and Phoenix, you build your application the right way, ready to scale and ready for the increasing demands of real-time web applications. This book covers the basics of the Phoenix web framework, showing you how to build a community voting application, and is divided into three parts. In the first part, you will be introduced to Phoenix and Elixir and understand the core terminologies that are used to describe them. You will also learn to build controller pages, store and retrieve data, add users to your app pages and protect your database. In the second section you will be able to reinforce your knowledge of architecting real time applications in phoenix and not only debug these applications but also diagnose issues in them. In the third and final section you will have the complete understanding of deploying and running the phoenix application and should be comfortable to make your first application release By the end of this book, you'll have a strong grasp of all of the core fundamentals of the Phoenix framework, and will have built a full production-ready web application from scratch.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Introducing User Accounts and Sessions

Working with Elixir's Concurrency Model

When you start working with your Phoenix application, you'll inevitably start marveling about how fast your application runs, how stable it is, and how well it handles an absolute ton of incoming connections. The great thing about working with Phoenix is that all of this is just something you get for free! No drama, no confusion, your application just scales for free to an amazing level. This is a wonderful thing to think about when you're architecting a site. Typically, there is a dance that happens somewhere along the implementation of your site where you need to start thinking and planning for how you're going to scale your app for 10x/100x/1000x growth in concurrent users.

If you're hosting your application in the cloud, you might just scale by throwing a ton of money at the problem until you can start making...