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Build Your Own Web Framework in Elixir

By : Aditya Iyengar
Book Image

Build Your Own Web Framework in Elixir

By: Aditya Iyengar

Overview of this book

Elixir's functional nature and metaprogramming capabilities make it an ideal language for building web frameworks, with Phoenix being the most ubiquitous framework in the Elixir ecosystem and a popular choice for companies seeking scalable web-based products. With an ever-increasing demand for Elixir engineers, developers can accelerate their careers by learning Elixir and the Phoenix web framework. With Build Your Own Web Framework in Elixir, you’ll start by exploring the fundamental concepts of web development using Elixir. You'll learn how to build a robust web server and create a router to direct incoming requests to the correct controller. Then, you'll learn to dispatch requests to controllers to respond with clean, semantic HTML, and explore the power of Domain-Specific Languages (DSL) and metaprogramming in Elixir. You'll develop a deep understanding of Elixir's unique syntax and semantics, allowing you to optimize your code for performance and maintainability. Finally, you'll discover how to effectively test each component of your application for accuracy and performance. By the end of this book, you'll have a thorough understanding of how Elixir components are implemented within Phoenix, and how to leverage its powerful features to build robust web applications.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Part 1: Web Server Fundamentals
4
Part 2: Router, Controller, and View
10
Part 3: DSL Design

Writing the implementation

In this case, the implementation would be the modules used to define a note struct and play a note, using the aplay command.

Note for non-Linux readers

The aplay command only works for Linux machines with ALSA. If you’re using a Mac or a Windows machine, you can try looking for alternatives to play a note as part of this project. Even if you cannot get a note to play on your machine, it would still be very useful to learn how to build this interface.

Since the goal of this project is to learn how to use metaprogramming, we will focus more of our attention on building the interface. Therefore, I will be glossing over some of the details of the implementation.

Let’s start by creating a new mix project:

$ mix new mix_music

Now, inside our new mix project, let’s define a MixMusic.Note module, which also defines a struct. This module will also be responsible for converting a note to a final frequency with a MixMusic.Note...