We've written our first major suite of database-level code and built all of the basic building blocks of our Phoenix application! We've covered the database side, the controller side, templates, views, and everything in between! We've even written a few tests to really shore up our working knowledge and understanding of our code.
We also have an admittedly basic user interface, which allows users to interact with our database in a proper way! Now that we have all of that, we need to start moving on to what is arguably one of the most important points of any web application: user accounts and authentication! Think of how much data is tied to you on a regular basis; in a similar fashion, we want to make sure that polls are secured and that any data about polls gets reported in the right ways! Given that, in our next chapter, we'll really start to harden...
