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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

Implementing OAuth in Our Application

We now have a working application with a lot of special features and some pretty cool internal tweaks based off the deep down internals of Elixir and Phoenix! We'll want to spend just a little bit of time polishing up our application and turning it into something that we're ready to push to production!

One thing that we don't have currently is a better system for creating an account on our system, so before we start talking about a way to actually ship this out into production, we'll spend a little bit of time shoring up our login system and including support for OAuth flows, such as support for Twitter and Google!

This is a significant part of preparing an application: to go from an idea in your head to something that is a viable platform and product that people actually want to use! The reality is that most people don...